Eight times as nutritious as a potato - tastes as sweet as a coconut
Native Australian superfood on the rebound
One member of the Australian yam family, the yam daisy (also known as murnong) was once a major food source for native Australians and is now being reintroduced into the culinary mainstream. Nutty, starchy and rather potato-like, the murnong is the edible root of a yellow dandelion-type plant, naturally occurring in southern and south-eastern (cool, dry) parts of Australia.
According to an article on sbs.com.au, the murnong was a common food source for Aboriginal people before European settlement, and the Indigenous population had sophisticated ways of farming this nutritious vegetable.
