Sweet potato can prevent influenza.
The weather turned cold and the flu storm struck again. Recently, the American media pointed out that sweet potato helps to resist the flu and prevent colds.
Sweet potato is the best food source of carotene, which helps the human body to make enough white blood cells to fight the infection caused by the invasion of cold virus.
Sweet potatoes can be eaten in many ways, such as steaming, roasting or mashing.
Sweet potato soup can lose weight.
Coarse grains are rich in dietary fiber. After entering the intestine, they can clean up the waste in the intestine, collect toxins and waste, and let them be excreted smoothly. Sweet potato is also rich in dietary fiber and vitamins, which can create new cells in the intestine and promote metabolism.
The practice of slimming sweet potato soup is simple:
1 sweet potato, peeled and shredded, 1/4 onion, cut into small pieces, appropriate amount of kelp, shredded, shredded Tricholoma. Boil water in a pot, pour shredded sweet potato, shredded onion, shredded Tricholoma and shredded kelp into the soup to boil, then simmer for 10 minute, and add salt, chicken essence and sesame oil to taste. This soup can make blood flow smoothly and transfer energy to blood; Kelp can not only bring out the delicious soup, but also supplement minerals to the body.
Sweet potatoes must be cooked before eating.
Sweet potatoes must be steamed before eating, because the starch particles in sweet potatoes are not destroyed by high temperature and are difficult to digest.
Sweet potato contains an oxidase, which easily produces a large amount of carbon dioxide gas in human gastrointestinal tract. Eating too much sweet potato will make people bloat, burp and fart.
Eat sweet potato "heartburn" with small pickles
Sweet potato has a high sugar content. Eating too much will stimulate gastric acid secretion and make people feel heartbroken. Therefore, it is best to eat sweet potatoes with a little pickles, which can effectively inhibit stomach acid.
Be careful to eat sweet potatoes for indigestion.
Sweet potato has a lot of sugar, which can't be absorbed by the body for a while, and the rest is easy to ferment in the intestine, making the abdomen uncomfortable. Chinese medicine believes that people with dampness blocking the spleen and stomach, qi stagnation and blood stasis should be careful to eat sweet potatoes.
Sweet potato and persimmon should not be eaten together.
Sweet potato and persimmon should not be eaten at the same time in a short time, at least five hours apart. If eaten at the same time, the sugar in sweet potato will ferment in the stomach, which will increase the secretion of gastric acid and precipitate and condense with tannin and pectin in persimmon to produce lumps. When the amount is serious, it can cause gastrointestinal bleeding or gastric ulcer. If you feel upset in the stomach, you must go to the hospital for gastroscopy to see if there is stomach bleeding or gastric ulcer.
Sweet potato is best for lunch.
Sweet potato lacks protein and lipids, so it should be eaten with vegetables, fruits and protein foods to avoid nutritional imbalance. Most importantly, sweet potatoes are best eaten at lunch time. This is because after we eat sweet potatoes, the calcium contained in them needs to be absorbed in the human body for 4 to 5 hours, and the afternoon sunshine can just promote the absorption of calcium. Eat sweet potatoes for lunch, and calcium can be completely absorbed before dinner, which will not affect the absorption of calcium in other foods at dinner.
Why is the old sweet potato sweeter than the newly dug sweet potato? First, the sweet potato is preserved for a long time, and the evaporation of water is reduced, which relatively increases the sugar concentration in the sweet potato; Second, in the process of placing, water participated in the hydrolysis reaction of starch in sweet potato, and the starch was hydrolyzed into sugar, which increased the sugar in sweet potato. So we think the sweet potato with a long history is sweeter than the newly excavated sweet potato.
Through the above introduction, we know that eating sweet potatoes is for health, so we can usually eat sweet potatoes according to the above methods, but if we are friends with poor digestive function, we should try to eat less sweet potatoes.