LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Ever heard of yacon? It’s the new root crop "craze" in the Cordillera because of its potential as a food and cash commodity. A member of the sunflower family, it belongs to the ...

LIMA, Peru (Reuters) --Imagine a sweet treat that doesn't make you fat -- indeed is positively good for you -- and that you can indulge in even if you're diabetic. Peru, the land that gave the world ...

In my article, Yummy Yacon, I indicate that you can store yacon for up to eight months. A reader recently wrote in saying he’s grown yacon for years, but he has trouble storing the tubers. This is an ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. To some, it’s yacon. To others, Peruvian sweet root. ‘My partner is from ...

Yacon, a tuber that grows in the Andean region of South America, was identified as a potential diet food as far back as 1989, in a book by United States government researchers. “Yacon stores ...

Yacón is a root vegetable rapidly gaining popularity and deservedly so. Smallanthus sonchifolius, indigenous to South America, has thrived in my Waikato forest garden for years, producing vast ...

Haven't heard of yacon? WHAT IS IT: A molasses-like natural sweetener derived from an Andean root WHO TRIED IT: Brooke Showell, PEOPLE.com contributor WHY SHE DID IT: Because a spoonful (or three) of ...

There is something deeply satisfying about bringing food out of the earth. As shadows lengthen in the garden and the days grow darker, long stems of the yacon (Polymnia sonchifolia) growing in The ...

Yacon is a perennial plant forming a clump of >20 big, edible underground tubers. Yacon, which originates from South America, has become increasingly popular in the Japanese diet for tubers have a ...

The Claim: The fruity syrup from the root of a South American plant is rapidly gaining popularity because of hopes it may aid weight loss, and may be a good sugar alternative for diabetics. The ...