Must See in Winter: The Six Curative Effects of Sweet Potatoes

â—† six kinds of magical sweet potato

1, boiled sweet potato hot jaundice: sweet potato cooking, can cure hot yellow pimple.

2, fried sweet potato leaf purge: 250 grams of sweet potato leaves, refueling, salt fry, once eaten, twice a day, can cure constipation.

3, raw sweet potato leaves constipation: raw sweet potato leaves broken, transferred brown sugar, paste navel, can cure the urine barrier.

4, dried sweet potato leaf rattan Diabetes: dry sweet potato vine amount, decoction, can cure diabetes.

5, sweet potato powder treatment of nocturnal emission: daily morning and evening with sweet potato powder transfer service, can cure nocturnal emission, gonorrhea.

6, sweet potato leaves to control accumulation: fresh sweet potato leaves 90-120 grams, boiled clothes, can cure children's hoarding, night blindness.

â—† Health benefits of sweet potato:

1. Sweet potato has anticancer effect

The most nutritious substances in the diet are β-carotene (vitamin A precursor), vitamin C and folic acid, and the three are rich in sweet potato. A small sweet potato (about 2 doublets) can provide 2 times the amount of vitamin A needed by the human body per day, a third of the required amount of vitamin C per day, and about 50 micrograms of folic acid; the content of dietary fiber is higher than that of a bowl of oatmeal . [Gourmet China]

The antioxidant effects of beta-carotene and vitamin C help to resist the damage of oxidative stress on DNA, and play a role in anti-cancer.

Eating 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. Sweet potatoes are good for the heart

Sweet potatoes are rich in potassium, beta-carotene, folic acid, vitamin C, and vitamin B6. These five ingredients help prevent cardiovascular disease. Potassium helps the body's cellular fluids and electrolytes balance, maintaining normal blood pressure and heart function.

Beta-carotene and vitamin C have anti-lipid oxidation and prevent atherosclerosis. Supplementation of folate and vitamin B6 helps reduce blood homocysteine ​​levels, which damage the arteries and are an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease.

3. Sweet potato prevents emphysema

An animal experiment at the University of Kansas found that smoking rats have lower levels of vitamin A in the body and are prone to emphysema, while those who smoke in foods rich in vitamin A have a significantly lower incidence of emphysema.

Why do some long-term smokers live above the age of 90 but do not experience emphysema? It may be related to the rich vitamin A content in their daily diet. The researchers suggest that those smokers or passive smokers are advised to eat vitamin A rich foods such as sweet potatoes daily to prevent emphysema.

4. Sweet potato has anti-diabetic effect

Japanese researchers found that obese diabetic rats in the white-sweet sweet potato after 4 weeks, 6 weeks after the blood insulin levels were reduced by 26%, 60%; and found that sweet potatoes can effectively inhibit diabetes after oral administration of glucose glucose levels in obese rats High; eating sweet potatoes can also reduce the levels of triglyceride and free fatty acids in diabetic rats.

Studies have shown that white sweet potatoes have a certain anti-diabetic effect. A clinical study at the University of Vienna, Austria, found that patients with type 2 diabetes have improved insulin sensitivity after taking white sweet potato extract, which helps control blood sugar.

Sweet potato has been used by nutritionists as a kind of medicine and food with balanced nutrition. Its calories are only one-third of the calories produced by the same weight of rice, and it contains almost no fat and cholesterol. Eat sweet potatoes is good for human health, and have some weight loss. But eat sweet potatoes do not eat too much, so as to avoid heartburn, back to acid or abdominal distension and other abdominal discomfort symptoms.

â—† The nutritional value of sweet potato:

Sweet potatoes, also known as sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes, hawthorn and so on. Sweet potatoes contain many nutrients that the body needs. Each 500 g of sweet potato produces about 635 kcal of heat energy, containing 11.5 g of protein, 14.5 g of sugar, 1 g of fat, 100 mg of phosphorus, 90 mg of calcium, 2 g of iron, 0.5 mg of carotene, and vitamin B1, B2, C and niacin, linoleic acid and so on.

The contents of vitamins B1 and B2 were 6-fold and 3-fold higher than those of rice. In particular, sweet potatoes are rich in lysine, and rice and flour lack lysine. However, many people have not yet realized.

Eating sweet potatoes will not make people fat. According to scientific research, eating sweet potatoes will not make people fat, on the contrary sweet potatoes is still an ideal diet food.

Its calorie content is very low, much lower than normal rice, so you don't have to worry about gaining weight after eating, but you can lose weight. Sweet potatoes also contain an estrogen-like substance that has a protective effect on protecting human skin and delaying aging.

Therefore, many foreign women treat sweet potatoes as beauty foods. Sweet potatoes are sweet and crunchy and can be used as a substitute for fruit; cooked and soft, eaten in the mouth and sweet in the heart. It can serve as both a staple food and a vegetable. Steamed, boiled, fried, fried, eat a lot, once skillfully cooked, it can also become a delicacy.

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