A rugged, reliable perennial, yacon (ya-CONE) has been a food staple for centuries in the Andes, where the sweet, juicy tubers are eaten fresh like fruit. In fact, the tubers hold so much sugar that ...
Over the course of the growing season, a yacon bush will reach 6 to 8 feet in height with giant showy leaves and small yellow flowers, making it a nice ornamental backdrop plant. To save yacon from ...
Yacón, sometimes known as strawberry jicama, has a flavor that can be described in one word: delicious. It is an open-pollinated perennial (often grown as an annual) from Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, ...
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 ...
A November episode of The Dr. Oz Show featuring the potential weight-loss benefits of yacon syrup re-aired this week; since then, searches for the stuff on Yahoo! have spiked. Users' searches about ...
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 ...
Crab apples and yacon root will be some of the produce available at Saturday’s Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market, open 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. next to City Hall. This will be the final Saturday for the ...
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