Carlow Garden Festival to get under way this weekend
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Carlow Nationalist — Carlow Garden Festival will be blooming marvellous!
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Ask Peter: Yacon
Klaus Laitenberger, a master gardener based in Ireland, has been in touch to ask Peter whether he knows of any farms growing yacon and/or yams that he could visit on a trip to New Zealand in May. Please let us know if you have any recommendations and we will pass these details on to Klaus or you can contact him directly through his website greenvegetableseeds.com. And now that we are talking tubers, here are some previous notes from Peter on the yacon.
The yacon/yakon is an interesting tuber for all sorts of reasons, but one that’ll no doubt interest food scientists and commercial folk is that although it’s very sweet, the type of sugars it contains (inulin) aren’t easily digested by the human body, so you don’t really put on any weight eating them. You get the benefit of sweetness but none of the bad association. I’ve seen yacon syrup for sale in the US and it’s used a little like mild maple syrup or agave syrup on cereals, fruit salads, cocktails and