Our organic yacon flakes are made from dehydrating slices of organic yacon root nothing added and only water taken away grown in the mountain ranges of the peruvian andes and often called the apple of the earth yacon roots have a delicate sweet taste and contain fructooligosaccharides fos fos type of sugars have a delicious sweet taste but passes through the body undigested so yacon root only contains about half the calories of an average sugar source yacon root also has a prebiotic