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Organic Local Lotus Roots 300G

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RM13.90

Lotus Root locally known as Akar Teratai or Lian Ou (莲藕), is an aquatic rhizome prized for its distinctive wheel-like air chambers, starchy yet crisp texture, and mild, sweet, nutty flavor profile. Physical Appearance Plant: Features sau...
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Description
Lotus Root locally known as Akar Teratai or Lian Ou (莲藕), is an aquatic rhizome prized for its distinctive wheel-like air chambers, starchy yet crisp texture, and mild, sweet, nutty flavor profile.

Physical Appearance

  • Plant: Features sausage-like cylindrical link segments growing horizontally in underwater mud, connected to large floating peltate leaves and fragrant lotus flowers above the water surface.

  • Rhizome and Flesh: The outer skin is smooth, buff-to-pale reddish-tan, enclosing a firm, creamy-white inner flesh perforated by 7 to 9 symmetrical longitudinal air canals that create a decorative lace pattern when sliced crosswise.

Growth Habit: A fast-spreading aquatic perennial root crop grown in flooded paddy fields or shallow natural water bodies, maturing for harvest after 5 to 8 months when the foliage turns brown and dies back.

Habitat and Growth

  • Origin: Native to tropical and warm temperate regions of Asia (including India, China, and Southeast Asia), widely cultivated across lowland aquatic agricultural ecosystems.

  • Climate: Thrives in warm, sunny tropical lowlands (20°C to 35°C) with constant access to still, non-flowing shallow water bodies and high relative humidity.

  • Soil: Requires deep, rich, heavy clay-loam or muddy aquatic soil rich in organic silt (pH 6.0–7.0) to anchor the thick rhizomes underwater.

Uses

  • Culinary: Highly valued in traditional Chinese and Asian cooking; slow-simmered in nourishing Cantonese pork rib and peanuts soup, stir-fried with garlic and snow peas, stuffed with glutinous rice as a dessert, braised, or deep-fried into crispy lotus root chips.

  • Nutritional: High in complex carbohydrates, dietary fiber, Vitamin C, Vitamin B6, potassium, copper, and iron, supporting healthy circulation, digestive regularity, and natural immunity.
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We reserve the absolute discretion to approve or reject your request for cancellation or reschedule delivery. For any cancellation of your order, you shall be responsible for the payment of an administrative charge, which shall be determined by us prior to your cancellation. Notwithstanding anything stated to the contrary, no cancellation or reschedule delivery will be entertained once your orders have been shipped to your shipping address.

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