or yam bean. Unlike daikon, jicama is not a Brassica. Instead, it's in the bean family (Fabaceae). There are three cultivated species of jicama (Pachyrhizus erosus), but jicama de agua (jicama of ...

Jicama is typically consumed raw and has a mild, marginally sweet, slightly nutty flavor. It's also known as yam bean, Mexican turnip, shankhalu (in Bengali), singkamas (in the Philippines), kuzu ...