最近有很多人问:雪莲果是什么?听说它能够降血糖、降血脂,能量极低,还能减肥,真的有那么多功效吗?雪莲果不过是一个好听的名字罢了。其实,雪莲果和雪莲的亲缘关系很远,它是一种菊科植物的块根,外表像红薯,也像红薯一样长在地下。还是过去翻译的名字“安第斯菊薯”最为贴切。 Recently, many people asked: What is the yacon? I heard that it can lower blood sugar, lowering blood pressure, energy is extremely low, but also to lose weight, really so much efficacy? Yacon is just a nice name. In fact, yacon and snow lotus is very distant, it is a kind of root of Compositae, looks like sweet potato, also grows underground like sweet potato. Or the past translation of the name “Andean sweet potato ” most appropriate.