Sweet potato is recognized as the "champion of vegetables"
Sweet potatoes are rich in dietary fiber, potassium and vitamin B6, iron and other nutrients and are low in calories. Equivalent to the purple Yam is a sweet potato sweet potato category. Can be divided into red and gold zone, Bai Xin, purple sweet potato varieties, which apart from the slightly different color and texture, and nutritional value of the difference is not significant.
Greatest characteristic of sweet potatoes are rich in dietary fiber and excellent, beneficial to gastrointestinal motility, can make one smooth bowel, but also to exclude. Doctors believe that smooth bowel is beneficial to digestion, absorption, and immune system enhancement.
In General, red yellow sweet potatoes taste more sweet, so popular; higher starch content of Bai Xin, food taste a bit dry, the more people in cold regions like; the popularity of purple sweet potato was in recent years, because it contains a lot of antioxidants, anthocyanins, special, loved by women and children.
Sweet potatoes and other vegetables, it contains more starch and a certain amount of high quality protein, can be absorbed by the body, and even act as a fill its belly. Because of this, many women use it as a preferred food for weight loss.
Sweet potato 7 health effects:
1, conducive to weight loss.
Modern oil intake of meat, milk and eggs, and a small amount of exercise, are prone to obesity, caused by "rich people". Sweet potato is low in fat, less heat, feeling full of strong characters, just meet basic requirements for dieters.
Only contains 0.2 grams of fat per 100 g of fresh sweet potatoes, 99,000 heat generated, probably for rice 1/3, so is a good low fat, low calorie foods, if used as a staple food, can effectively reduce the intake of other foods, and achieve the weight loss results.
In addition, sweet potatoes can effectively prevent the sugars into fat and fit.
2, preventing high cholesterol.
Sweet potato inhibiting cholesterol is other food 10 times. So, if you have high cholesterol, it may be appropriate to eat two pieces of sweet potato.
3, auxiliary control blood sugar.
Studies have found that patients with type 2 diabetes after taking white sweet potato extract, which improve insulin sensitivity, may help control blood sugar.
4, lower stroke risk.
Sweet potatoes are an absolute "high potassium and low sodium" King. Studies have found that sweet potatoes and other potassium-rich foods to reduce the risk of stroke by 20%.
5, support lower blood pressure.
Auxiliary hypotensive effect of sweet potato is mainly due to rich in potassium. Potassium and sodium are important elements affecting high or low blood pressure, if adequate intake of potassium, it promotes blood drains off excess sodium, eating potassium-rich foods also promote balanced mineral levels in the body and, ultimately, to be assisted in its effects.
6, conservation ...
Sweet potato contains abundant mucin, joint will also benefit the conservation.
7, anti-cancer.
Sweet potato extracts, can suppress colon cancer and breast cancer; cooked sweet potato tumor suppressor than raw sweet potatoes.
The practice of sweet potato starch noodles mixed with spinach:
Ingredients: sweet potato vermicelli 1, 1 spinach, garlic cloves 4 (with cut garlic cut pieces), and onion into strips.
Technique:
1, boil a pot of water, water rolls down sweet potato vermicelli, cooked pasta can be broken with chopsticks, pasta bath water drain water for later use.
2, continuing to spinach in boiling water, immediately pour the pot strainer, using chopsticks grubber to spinach cool down.
3, spinach and sweet potato starch noodles and pepper oil with garlic salt Zhenjiang vinegar mix, shredded raw onions to top.
4, another oil pot (acerbity of spinach oil slightly more than offset), on the oil to smoke poured during the onion. Spicy friends can add a spoonful of chili sauce.
Note: above is sweet potato 7 major effects, when the blast of cold air, and eat a piece of sweet potato, you will immediately feel warm and comfortable.
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