Sweet potato and yam can cook porridge together, as well as nourishing health porridge: sweet potato yam porridge and sweet potato yam millet porridge. Sweet potato and yam belong to the same category in Chinese medicine, which can be regarded as "brothers". When these two foods are eaten together, they will have more obvious health-keeping effects and are good for the body.

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Yam contains only about half as much calories and carbohydrates as sweet potatoes of the same quality, and contains no fat. Protein content is higher than sweet potato. The main component of yam is starch, some of which can be converted into dextrin, a decomposition product of starch, which can help digestion, so yam is a taro food that can be eaten raw. Yam contains a variety of trace elements, among which potassium content is high, the types and quantities of vitamins are few, and there is almost no carotene. The leaves of Chinese yam are an excellent source of carotene, calcium, iron and vitamin C.

Generally speaking, yam can't be mixed with kansui, pork liver, cucumber, pumpkin, carrot and bamboo shoots. Cucumber, pumpkin, seafood, etc.