Sweet potato can prevent cardiovascular disease

I believe we have all eaten baked sweet potatoes, a street snack with a sticky flavor and very good taste. Sweet potatoes, an ingredient that is not only affordable but also very rich in nutrients, are loved by people who are on a diet in their lives.

This is because sweet potatoes contain a lot of dietary fiber, and will not produce fat in the body, so it also often appears in diet meals. Sweet potatoes can be washed and eaten directly raw, can be cut into fine shreds and dried, and eaten with rice cooked together.

Can also be cut into slices or chunks, dried, and fried to eat, and now there are many businesses to make sweet potatoes into dried sweet potatoes, packaged, made into snacks, and put into major supermarkets to sell. Sweet potatoes no matter how eaten, can not hide their effectiveness.

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About sweet potatoes

[Sweet potato ingredients]

Sweet potatoes mainly contain sugar, fat, protein, carbohydrates, crude starch, vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium, and other nutrients.

Carotene and vitamin C can help antioxidants and avoid atherosclerosis. Potassium helps the body's cellular fluid and electrolyte balance, and folic acid and vitamin B6 help lower homocysteine levels in the blood.

Sweet potatoes contain four and seven times more vitamin B1 and B2 than rice, respectively, and have a vitamin C content comparable to citrus, making them known as a vitamin-rich plant.

Sweet potatoes taste soft, young, meals, and old, Eating 100 grams of sweet potato every day can meet the adult day, the physiological needs of carotenoids, and vitamin C.

Sweet potato efficacy]

1. and qi and blood

Sweet potatoes are rich in nutrients, rich in carbohydrates, dietary fiber, carotene, vitamins and potassium, magnesium, copper, selenium, calcium, and more than 10 kinds of elements. It can be effectively absorbed by the body, tonifying the middle and benefiting the qi, very beneficial to the deficiency of the spleen and stomach.

2. Protect your eyesight

Sweet potatoes contain vitamin A needed by the human body, by supplementing the vitamin A in sweet potatoes can nourish the retina, which is helpful for vision improvement but also to maintain normal eye function measures.

Therefore, you can usually nourish your eyes by eating sweet potatoes, so that you can protect people's eyes and prevent vision loss.

3. Prevention of cardiovascular disease

Sweet potato can help the body to prevent cardiovascular disease because sweet potato contains potassium, vitamin A, folic acid, vitamin B, carotene, and other nutrients.

Among them, carotene and vitamin C can effectively help the skin with antioxidants. More conducive to the balance of fluid and electrolytes in the body's cells, maintaining normal blood pressure and the function of the heart.

4. Delay aging

Sweet potato is rich in mucin, this substance can not only maintain the digestive tract, and the respiratory tract, such as the lubrication of the pipeline. Can also enhance the elasticity of blood vessels, slow down the aging of human organs, and improve the immunity of the body.

5. Prevent constipation

Sweet potatoes are rich in dietary fiber, a study shows that the fiber contained in sweet potatoes is equivalent to 10 times that of rice and noodles. So often eating can speed up the digestive tract peristalsis, so you can improve the problem of constipation.

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Can not eat sweet potato food? Remind everyone should pay attention to, do not take it seriously

1. banana

Sweet potatoes and bananas eaten together will cause discomfort, and ease bloating, accompanied by stomach acid reflux phenomenon. Eating more will cause food to stay in the stomach for a long time, resulting in gastric blockage, and even chronic poisoning. Therefore, sweet potatoes and bananas can not eat together.

2. persimmon

Sweet potatoes and persimmons should not be eaten at the same time in a short period, the sugar in sweet potatoes is fermented in the body, so stomach acid secretion increases. And persimmons contain more tannins and pectin, precipitation cohesion formation of gastric stones, and a large number of consumption will also cause gastrointestinal bleeding or gastric ulcers.

3. tomatoes

Sweet potatoes and tomatoes can not be eaten together, especially for people with a bad stomach, sweet potatoes in the sugar will occur in the stomach a lot of hydrochloric acids.

And tomatoes in a more acidic environment, precipitation will occur and does not dissolve water, and then lead to indigestion. May also present symptoms of abdominal pain, diarrhea, and vomiting.vomiting

4. eggs

Sweet potatoes can not eat eggs together, in fact, eggs do contain a lot of cholesterol, and protein. Sweet potatoes contain some tannin, if these two foods are eaten at the same time, it may cause abdominal pain.

Therefore, we should pay special attention in daily life, for the sake of personal health, these two foods can not be eaten at the same time.

5. sweet food

In the consumption of sweet potatoes, do not eat sweets at the same time, so as not to affect the health of everyone. Sweet potatoes contain high sugar, eat on an empty stomach will produce a lot of stomach acid, when too much acid will stimulate the gastric mucosa and cause acid reflux so people have a feeling of heartburn.

Sweet potatoes also contain an oxidase enzyme, which in the gastrointestinal tract will produce a lot of carbon dioxide gas, easy to cause stomach bloating, burping, and other symptoms.

6. Chicken

Because sweet potatoes are rich in starch, chicken contains a lot of high-quality protein, if the body too much intake of starch and protein, easy to have symptoms of indigestion, so some people eat sweet potatoes and chicken at the same time, there will be bloated feeling.

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Sweet potatoes with the best

1. sweet potatoes and dates: sweet potatoes and dates put together to cook porridge to drink can remove the body's dampness, but also can play the role of blood. Sweet potatoes contain a lot of dietary fiber, which can promote human bowel movements.

2. Add black beans: add black beans when cooking sweet potato rice. Black beans should be soaked for 6 hours to facilitate cooking. Eating more rice with black beans can brighten the eyes, can make the hair black and shiny, and also good anti-aging effect.

3. Add lotus root: When cooking sweet potato rice, you can add a section of lotus root. Lotus root should be peeled, cut into slices, add cool water to cook. With can clear heat to remove fire, rejuvenate the skin, and other effects.

4. sweet potato plus millet: when cooking millet porridge, add a little groundnut to it, is also very good. The sweet and crisp groundnut, after boiling with millet, can increase the sweetness of millet porridge, but also can play a role in the stomach.

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Extended topic: sweet potato is groundnut?

Sweet potatoes do not belong to the groundnut, and most people are not familiar with the groundnut, For some regional reasons, the groundnut, and sweet potatoes are often confused, and some even think that the groundnut is a sweet potato.

From a scientific point of view, groundnuts belong to the legume family vines, while sweet potatoes belong to the spinach family annual plants, so the two are not the same species. The difference between groundnuts and sweet potatoes is their family, color, shape, eating method, and origin.

The skin of groundnut is light yellow, while the skin of the sweet potato is purplish red. The shape of groundnuts is more rounded, while the shape of sweet potatoes is more elongated. Groundnuts can be eaten cold and raw and fried, while sweet potatoes can be eaten raw or steamed.

If you look closely, you can see that the shape of the groundnut is more like a large gyroscope, with the top pointed and the bottom round. The shape of sweet potatoes is a little longer compared to groundnuts, and the style is more similar to a spindle, so the color and shape can be easily distinguished between sweet potatoes and groundnuts.