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By GERLIE M. UY Not tambis. This is mangkopa, has fuller taste and texture than tambis ! Flashback of our Bounty-ful table: Fruits and other nature goodies.................... The official site taster biting the mangkopa (not apple)! Red red red citrus: cabugaw is tasteful... Yacon is crispy and sweet and far from the carbo-rich tubers!!!! Santol... sweet and small yet pulpy.. Balimbing is best when sliced and dipped with soy sauce!!! Mutant Coconut is good for cooking Our official taster is salivating over the macapuno! Sweet corn is sweet and tender. Avocado... Bugnay, bignay....

By GERLIE M. UY Yacon is like pear like apple like singkamas like sugarcane....in short, i liked it. More facts on Yacon The  Yacón  is a  perennial plant  traditionally grown in the Northern and Central  Andes  from Ecuador to Argentina for its crisp, sweet-tasting tuberous roots. The texture and flavour are very similar to  jicama  mainly differing in that yacon has some slightly sweet resinous and floral (similar to  violet ) undertones to its flavor. This flavoring is probably due to a sweet substance called  inulin , as replicates the sweet taste found in the roots of  elecampane , which also contains this substance. Another name for the yacón is  Peruvian ground apple . The tuber is composed mostly of water and  fructo-oligosaccharides . Commonly called " jicama " in Ecuador, yacón is sometimes confused with this unrelated plant. Yacón is actually a close relative of the sunflower  and  Jerusalem artichoke...