First, the practice of steaming sweet potatoes:

1. Wash and dry the sweet potato, and cut off a small part of the head and tail.

2. Wrap each sweet potato tightly with a napkin or kitchen paper (several more packages), and then soak the napkin thoroughly with water.

4. Put it in a larger and deeper container and cover it with plastic wrap (be careful not to seal the plastic wrap too tightly).

5, put in the microwave oven, high fire 13- 15 minutes to eat delicious sweet potatoes.

Second, the benefits of sweet potato:

1, preventing constipation

Sweet potato is a good food for relaxing bowels, mainly because it is rich in dietary fiber. Studies have shown that the fiber content of sweet potato is 10 times that of rice flour, so it can help accelerate gastrointestinal peristalsis, and then help defecation, thus alleviating constipation symptoms.

Step 2 protect your eyes

Sweet potato is rich in carotene, which can be converted into vitamin A, so sweet potato can provide rich vitamin A for human body, which is very helpful for maintaining normal visual function and preventing night blindness.

3. It's good for the heart

In addition to the carotene and vitamins mentioned above, sweet potato also contains potassium and folic acid, which are important components to protect cardiovascular system. Among them, potassium helps the human body to maintain the pH of body fluids and maintain normal blood pressure and heart function. Therefore, eating sweet potatoes regularly is good for preventing cardiovascular diseases.

4, help to lose weight

Many people may be confused about losing weight with sweet potato, because sweet potato belongs to starchy food and should gain weight, but it is not. In fact, sweet potato is a good diet food. In addition to the laxative effect mentioned above, its calories are actually very low. 100 grams of sweet potato has only a quarter of the fat content of rice. In addition, it has the function of preventing sugar from becoming fat, so it has the effect of diabetes.

5. Anti-cancer effect

Studies have shown that sweet potato contains "deoxyepiandrosterone", which is an effective component to prevent colon cancer and breast cancer, so eating sweet potato often also has a certain anti-cancer effect.

Third, the taboo of eating sweet potatoes:

1, eating cold sweet potatoes is easy to cause gastrointestinal discomfort. Sweet potato produces acid in the stomach, and patients with gastric ulcer and hyperacidity should not eat it.

2. Rotten sweet potatoes (sweet potatoes with dark spots) and germinated sweet potatoes can make people toxic and inedible.

3. Root vegetables such as sweet potatoes contain a lot of starch and can be processed into vermicelli, but alum is often added in the production process. Excessive consumption will lead to aluminum accumulation in the body, which is not good for the body.

4, sweet potato contains "gasification enzyme", don't eat too much at a time, and eat with rice noodles, and with pickles or vegetable soup to avoid heartburn, sour water, bloating and exhaust.

References:

Phoenix Net: Eating sweet potatoes and committing four taboos will be short-lived.