What does taro look like?

The taro has a cylindrical appearance with a brownish-yellow skin. A single female taro weighs 1,000-2,500 grams, with a maximum weight of 5,000 grams. The taro meat has purple-red betel nut markings.

The edible part of taro is a spherical tuberous root, which looks like a small potato and is generally 2 to 4 centimeters in diameter. The skin is yellow-brown. Its flesh is like a potato, but its taste is like chestnut. It is sweet and aromatic and has an unpleasant aftertaste after eating. Exhausted, hence the name taro. Taro is rich in nutrients.

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How to eat taro:

1. Mainland China:

Steam or boil, optionally dipped in white sugar and no. Used as a substitute for food. Taro rice, fried taro and rice, is also a favorite staple food of many Chinese.

2. Vietnam:

Taro is one of the ingredients used in Vietnamese spring rolls, as well as cakes, puddings, soups and other snacks.

Taro belongs to the class Monocotyledonae. The embryo in a monocot seed has only one terminal cotyledon, and the main root is underdeveloped, so it is mostly fibrous roots; the vascular bundles in the stem are scattered and not arranged into a cambium, so it cannot rely on the development of the cambium to gradually thicken.

Monocotyledons actually evolved from ancient dicots and are one of the specialized branches of dicots. This makes the traditional classification of dicots a paraphyletic group and is no longer considered a paraphyletic group. considered as a valid classification.

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