Sweet potato health benefits
Sweet potato tastes sweet, rich in carbohydrates, dietary fiber, carotene, vitamins and potassium, magnesium, copper, selenium, calcium and more than 10 kinds of elements. Although the sweet potato is small, its nutritional value and health care function are great. What health benefits do sweet potatoes have?
Disease prevention and health 7 effects
1. Anti-cancer: Eat sweet potatoes helps maintain normal folic acid levels in the body. Too low folic acid levels in the body can increase the risk of cancer. The high content of dietary fiber in sweet potato promotes gastrointestinal motility and prevents constipation and colorectal cancer.
2. Heart care: Sweet potatoes are rich in potassium, beta-carotene, folic acid, Vitamin C, and vitamin B6. These five ingredients help prevent cardiovascular disease. Japanese scholars also found that sweet potatoes contain collagen and mucopolysaccharides, which can reduce the total cholesterol in blood and prevent the occurrence of arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease.
3. The prevention of emphysema: eating sweet potatoes rich in vitamin A can prevent emphysema, so that the incidence decreased significantly.
4. Sugar control: A clinical study at the University of Vienna, Austria, showed that patients with type 2 diabetes have improved insulin sensitivity after taking white sweet potato extract, which helps control blood sugar.
5. Anti-Aging: Sweet potatoes contain a substance similar to female hormones, which has a certain effect on protecting human skin and delaying aging.
6. Weight loss: Weight loss scientific research found that sweet potato is an ideal diet food. Because it is low in fat, low in calories, it can effectively prevent sugar from being converted into fat in the body.
7. Constipation: Sweet potatoes also contain a lot of dietary fiber, can not be digested and absorbed in the intestine, can stimulate the intestines, detoxification, especially for elderly constipation has a good effect.
CraftsmanshipSweet potato can be used as a staple food and vegetables. There are many ways to steam, boil, fry, and fry. Once skillfully cooked, it can also become a delicacy. Such as Sichuan's red lotus root, yellow and bright, sweet and delicious; Shaanxi's vinegar, red and glutinous rice, silky and tender, unique flavor, as well as Fujian's "Musk potato chips", Hubei's "osmanthus sweet potato cake", etc. It is a famous local snack.
Sweet potato cooking tips
Although sweet potatoes are good, they contain large amounts of starch, and their gasifying enzymes can easily stimulate the secretion of gastric juice and produce carbon dioxide, which can cause bloating and spit water. So you can soak the chunks of sweet potatoes in salt water for 10 minutes and cook them again!
Food Tips
It should be noted that eating sweet potatoes should not be excessive, otherwise it will cause discomfort such as bloating, heartburn, pantothenic acid, and stomachache. Sweet potatoes with dark spots cannot be eaten. Sweet potatoes should not be eaten with persimmons, because the sugar in sweet potatoes is fermented in the stomach, which increases the secretion of gastric acid, reacts with the tannins and pectin in the persimmons, precipitates and condenses, produces a hard mass, and can cause severe stomach bleeding. Gastric ulcer or intestinal obstruction.
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