2000
DOI: 10.1590/s0102-05362000000100002
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O cultivo de yacon no Brasil

Abstract: O yacon (Polymnia sonchifolia Poep. Endl.) é uma espécie da família Asteraceae que apresenta um complexo sistema subterrâneo. Suas raízes tuberosas e rizóforos contêm grandes quantidades de frutose e glicose livres, além de fruto-oligossacarídeos do tipo inulina como carboidrato de reserva. Vem despertando interesse principalmente por suas propriedades medicinais, sendo utilizado como auxiliar no tratamento contra diabetes e colesterol. Foi introduzido no Brasil por volta de 1989, porém somente em 1994 iniciar… Show more

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“…This is the main obstacle for its development. Information related to these technologies is rare in the phytotechnical area, only some notes taken by Vilhena et al (2000) and Santana & Cardoso (2008) can be found. This fact justifies that more studies are necessary on the growing and development of this species.…”
Section: Comunicação Científica / Scientific Communicationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This is the main obstacle for its development. Information related to these technologies is rare in the phytotechnical area, only some notes taken by Vilhena et al (2000) and Santana & Cardoso (2008) can be found. This fact justifies that more studies are necessary on the growing and development of this species.…”
Section: Comunicação Científica / Scientific Communicationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…With similar appearance to sweet potatoes, sweet flavor and crunchy pulp, the root bark is mainly consumed fresh, pure or in the presence of fruits (Vilhena et al 2000). Unlike most tuberous species, which store energy as starch, yacon has fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS) as the main storage carbohydrate.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Unlike most tuberous species, which store energy as starch, yacon has fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS) as the main storage carbohydrate. FOS are shortchain polymers of fructose with a degree of polymerization (DP) from 3 to 10 (Goto et al 1995;Vilhena et al 2000). Due to the presence of FOS, yacon has functional properties as soluble dietary fibers and prebiotics, as they are not digested by the enzymes in the human digestive tract (conferring relatively low energy value), besides its influence on intestinal function and on lipid parameters (Gibson and Roberfroid 1995;Cazetta et al 2005;Campos et al 2012).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the mid-1980s, yacon cultivation started outside the Andes, at first in New Zealand and Japan, from where it spread to other countries, and can be found since the 1990s in Brazil, Paraguay, United States, Slovakia, China, Korea and Taiwan [10]. This crop was introduced to Brazil in the early 1990s, in the state of São Paulo [11], but consumption became popular only in the mid 2000s, when this tuber became popularly known as "yacon potato" or "diet potato" [12], especially among people with diabetes and consumers of low calorie foods.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%