Irish Yacon

The root that tastes like a fruit! Irish produced Yacon has particularly unique growing environment suited to bioactive and nutritional quality.

[Irish Yacon @IrishYacon]

@JamesOD10092613 Great work great scenery James

[Irish Yacon @IrishYacon]

@ZwartblesIE @PatFitzGerald @ETIBerlin @KnottownFarmer

[Irish Yacon @IrishYacon]

@ZwartblesIE @PatFitzGerald @ETIBerlin @KnottownFarmer A Baby Yacon we use the big ones in processing

[Irish Yacon @IrishYacon]

@ZwartblesIE @PatFitzGerald @ETIBerlin @KnottownFarmer This is our fourth year trying to get this right on the processing to preserve bioactives in tact as well as the Inulin and FOS you’ll love the raw vegetable think pear apple firm cucumber crunch, use where you would an apple in raw salads, always eat skin

[Irish Yacon @IrishYacon]

@ZwartblesIE @PatFitzGerald @ETIBerlin @KnottownFarmer We are working on a top secret project to turn juice into somethinggggg toootalllly different cake is a byproduct hog in antioxidants and fibre we will dry that for later use

[Irish Yacon @IrishYacon]

@ZwartblesIE @ETIBerlin @KnottownFarmer @PatFitzGerald Welcome to a few Whenever you want we are processing some this week for some further trials to bring this great tuber to a wider range of applications in food ingredients more later on that

[Irish Yacon @IrishYacon]

@ETIBerlin We are doing analysis for extractions so I’ll keep those applications in mind

[Irish Yacon @IrishYacon]

Moving Yacon production to next phase of collaboration with local Irish farmer. A very adaptable Crop for Irish climate. Much deeper in potential processing opportunities, much done more to do! #plantbasedfood #smartcarbs #yacon #guthealth

[Irish Yacon @IrishYacon]

I’ll send you a picture tomorrow if some leafless stems they are quite fibrous. I’d love to know if of use. Please DM if you think you would like to get raw material to test

[Irish Yacon @IrishYacon]

@ETIBerlin

[Beotanics @Beotanics]

Some awful puns but great science at @Shannon_ABC and @Beotanics we will stick to the day jobs 😂 #PlantBasedFood #yacon #ireland

[Irish Yacon @IrishYacon]

Yacon Kimichi Japanese style. The root that tastes like a fruit has also arrived in Ireland here in Kilkenny for some years. A lot of product opportunities for Irish food industry to harness this vegetable. #plantbasedfoods #Ireland https://t.co/wVGzoGBHx6

[Harjinder Singh Kukreja @SinghLions]

Everyone should know the international sign for Help me. Let’s make this famous #HelpMe

[Irish Yacon @IrishYacon]

@YeatsCountyInn Ok the tuber is the part you eat it doesn’t reproduce from the tuber. You need plants or rhizomes.

[Irish Yacon @IrishYacon]

Yacón salad with carrots ♥ and delicious dressing (recipe) https://t.co/pzmnEuvh2Q

[Irish Yacon @IrishYacon]

@Harvest2050_MZ @Cipotato @GTruittNakata @StefdeHaan1 @horacio_rv @IniciativAndina Yes they are very adaptable to our Irish climate as also are Oca and Mashua which we grow on our farm here