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 ...

While jicama is native to Mexico and Central America, it has been introduced to and cultivated in southeast Asia and parts 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 ...