The flour has a nice taste. It may be used in many ways and makes nice baked products. This flour is one of our top three in terms of taste. Yam flour is a cooked flour, and makes good cookies, pie crusts and so forth. The taste is not bland although also not unpleasant for most people.
Lotus tastes somewhat like cheddar cheese with a twist of lemon.
Also adding a little salt to a recipe seems to neutralize the taste and make it much more bland. When baking, better results are obtained with small sizes, for example make several small loaves of bread rather than one large loaf. Cassava flour produces baked products with a very nice taste and texture, particularly bread, muffins, cookies, and pizza dough. The flour taste is bland in a gravy or thickener. Artichoke flour, because of the nature of the artichoke tuber, does not thicken like the other flours do.