What are the health benefits of Yucca?!


Question: What are the health benefits of Yucca?
Also are the vitamins and minerals in the white fleshy part or the skin? Because seeing as how the skin is all waxy I hope the nutrients are not in the skin because I have to peel it off in order to eat the vegetable.

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Yuccas are widely grown as ornamental plants in gardens. Many species of yucca also bear edible parts, including fruits, seeds, flowers, flowering stems,[7] and more rarely roots. References to yucca root as food often stem from confusion with the similarly spelled but botanically unrelated yuca, also called cassava (Manihot esculenta). Roots of soaptree yucca (Yucca elata) are high in saponins and are used as a shampoo in Native American rituals. Dried yucca leaves and trunk fibers have a low ignition temperature, making the plant desirable for use in starting fires via friction.

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vitamin c. it doesn't matter what nutrition the skin has, you cant eat the skin.

Yucca Root
Serving size 1/2 cup raw, sliced (103g
Amounts Per Serving % Daily Value
Calories 160
Calories from Fat 5
Total Fat 0g 0%
Sodium 15mg 1%
Cholesterol 0mg 0%
Total Carbohydrate 39 13%
Dietary Fiber 2g 7%
Sugars 2g
Protein 1g
Vitamin A 0%
Vitamin C 35%
Calcium 2%
Iron 2%
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.




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