Sweet potato, also known as cold potato, bean potato and sweet potato, is usually eaten with roots. The pulp is white, crisp and delicious, with a little earthy flavor and high nutritional value. It is planted in the southwest and southeast of China, but less in the north, so northerners can easily confuse it with sweet potatoes. In fact, sweet potato and sweet potato are two different plants.

1, can be eaten raw.

Sweet potato pulp is crisp and white, which can be eaten directly as fruit. Most people like to eat it raw because it is tender and juicy and tastes excellent. If eaten raw, it is crispy and the nutrition is easily absorbed and utilized by the human body. Even if it is made into a dish, it is usually eaten directly and cold.

2. The benefits of eating raw food

Sweet potato is rich in protein, sugar, vitamins, iron, calcium, phosphorus and other nutrients. Eating raw in summer can relieve summer heat, quench thirst and reduce fever. It can not only prevent and treat hypertension and arteriosclerosis, improve immunity, delay aging, resist cancer, but also relieve alcoholism. It has the function of clearing away heat and toxic materials for mild alcoholism, and also has certain curative effect for patients with chronic alcoholism.

3. Edible people

In summer, for patients with summer heat, cold, headache, dry stool, irritability and thirst, they can eat sweet potatoes immediately, which can effectively relieve symptoms. In addition, if you drink too much or have chronic alcoholism, you can also eat some raw sweet potatoes to detoxify, and it is better to mix some sugar.

4, avoid eating people

Sweet potato is cold, so women should not eat raw sweet potato during menstruation, especially women with dysmenorrhea. People with cold constitution such as stomach deficiency, spleen and stomach weakness and cold diarrhea should not eat raw sweet potato, and diabetics should not eat sweet potato.