How to cook mountain medicine? Cooked or eaten raw? Keep nutrients to take care of the stomach

 7:59am, 1 September 2025

各種不同的山藥,從左到右分別是: 日本山藥、陽明山山藥、紫皮山藥、紫山藥、山藥。

<br />圖片來源/《餐桌上的蔬菜百科》 Mountain medicines include long potatoes, field potatoes, yam, mountain potatoes, etc. Most people know that the slippery meat of mountain medicine has a health-care effect on the kidneys and stomach, but they may not know that if cooked too high, the effect will be reduced. How should mountain medicine be taken the most nutritious? There are also suitable cooking methods according to different varieties.

●Full season

Autumn, winter, and spring; from September to April each year, major origins

Keilung, Taipei, New Taipei City, Chiayi, and Hengchun

●Common types of Japanese mountain medicines are imported from Japan, with a longer body shape than ordinary mountain medicines, and they taste more delicate and suitable for mixed-raised food.

日本山藥。
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Yangmingshan Mountain Medicine

The abundant water in Yangmingshan Mountain makes the grown mountain medicine sweet and soft taste, making it one of the best foods on the table in the local wild vegetable restaurant.

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Zishan Pharmaceutical

The color is beautiful and contains a unique aroma. It is suitable for grinding into mountain medicine paste to make desserts or decocted.

紫山藥。
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Purple Pig Mountain Medicine

is also called "Milk Mountain Medicine". The mountain medicine tastes more slurry and is suitable for sautification, stir-frying and boiling.

If the types of mountain medicines are divided into color, they can be divided into two categories: white and purple. Zishan medicines are harder and the cooking time takes a while; if they are divided into block shapes, they can be divided into two categories: long and block shapes.

Shan medicine has been used as a health food or Chinese medicine since ancient times. Because it contains polysaccharides, resistant powders and water-soluble fibers, it can extend the digestion and absorption of sugar. Therefore, if you have abnormal blood sugar control, you can also replace half a bowl of refined white rice with a standard bowl of fine white rice as the source of food. Because peanuts contain ingredients such as Ddiosgenin and Ssterodidal sapogenins, they have the functions of lowering blood lipids and antioxidant. They are beneficial to immune regulation and anti-cancer and prolong aging. They are good products for nourishing and nourishing. They can be eaten raw or cooked (steamed, boiled, and fried) after peeling. They are mostly used for nourishing and cooking soup.

(This article is authorized to be reprinted from Taiwan’s good ingredients)