Today I would like to talk to you about yet another food considered a fat melter. I’m talking about yacon syrup , a tuber, in France called earth-pear, perhaps in contrast to the potato, which is very popular in the United States.

Yacon syrup is in fact the result of a kind of sweet resin that is obtained from tubers, those that grow from the yacon plant, in the Andes.

It is therefore a molasses that, with half the calories of sugar, promises to lower blood sugar, awaken metabolism, burn fat instead of sugar, immediately increase intestinal regularity. A slight regularizing and draining effect is actually on the former, due to the presence of a special fiber, inulin.

However, inulin itself is not well digested by everyone: it is a FODMAP, which is a fiber that digests slowly and causes fermentation, so yacon syrup can also cause swelling and intestinal fermentation.

Yacon syrup: Dcomedieta’s experience

I was able to order online and get the Yacon syrup. I took one and a half tablespoons of it for a month, exactly the same amount taken by the 55 women in one of the three clinical studies that tried to demonstrate its effects on weight loss.

Meanwhile, the study on people has given very promising results , but it is a small study, so there is a risk of hoax.

In fact, the product can be an adjunct to weight loss because it satisfies and can replace sugar (not in cooking). And it is true that it helps in regularity, so you go to the bathroom more often.
The first week of Yacon syrup made me drop a pound.

The reason is obvious: this kind of molasses stimulates diuresis and promotes intestinal regularity, so at first glance you start to lose something.

Already after the first week every possible oscillation (of half a kilo, then, you will understand) has settled and at the end of the month: eating as always, I was exactly the same as before.

So, in short: if we suffer from constipation, Yacon syrup can be substituted raw to sweeten, instead of sugar, for example in yogurt and coffee. However, it has a price that does not make it quite advantageous to use it more than a spoon a day.

Those who want to try it can buy it here.