“…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.…”