Jerusalem artichoke (sunroot, sunchoke, earth apple or topinambur) - useful properties for diabetics

Cultivation a Jerusalem artichoke or topinambur (Helianthus tuberosus) on garden is one of possibilities of reception of fructose. Treasured dream of any gardener is the plant which needs to be planted only and then not to remember about it till the moment of assemblage of a crop. Topinambur is one of such plants. Often truck farmers use it for a designation of site borders. Only the few know that this unpretentious plant is a fine source of fructose.

To the middle of summer topinambur shoots in the sky a two-meter stalk with a flower reminding a sunflower, and by the end of summer the plant forms the tubers accumulating fibers, carbohydrates and riboflavin. In its leaves contains carbohydrates of 5-8 %, in stalks - to 25 %, and in tubers - 15-25 %. Besides it tubers contain zinc, iron and silicon. It surpasses a potato, carrots, a sugar beet in the maintenance of iron, and concentration of the silicon especially useful to people of advanced age, reaches 8 % of dry weight.

Inulin contains in tubers. Stability of inulin to a cold has special value: it remains in the tubers left in the earth practically all the winter long without damage. Therefore in the summer and in the autumn it is better to eat other fruit and the fresh greens, containing necessary carbohydrates and vitamins, and to keep topinambur in the earth till early spring. At this time in tubers process of partial hydrolysis of inulin to fructose goes. Therefore in the spring it becomes sweet. Good advice: do not cut off a skin of topinambur, carefully wash out and slice it. Jerusalem artichoke can be stored in the winter as a potato, better in small linen sacks, in a dry and cool place. It is necessary to protect carefully tubers from a moisture - they easily rot.

Topinambur is useful at treatment of a gout, gastroenteric frustration, an anaemia, urolithic illness. Such supplier of fructose is necessary for healthy people as an excellent prophylactic of diabetes.

11.01.2009

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