1, sweet potato is a good diet food, which is low in calories and rich in nutrition. So when you lose weight, you can use sweet potatoes instead of some staple foods. Sweet potato itself is not a "body killer" in everyone's eyes, but a nutritious "slimming product".
2. Sweet potato is rich in protein, starch, pectin, cellulose, amino acids, vitamins and various minerals, and has the reputation of "longevity food". The sugar content reached 15%-20%. Has anticancer, heart protecting, emphysema and diabetes preventing, and weight reducing effects. Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica in Ming Dynasty recorded that "sweet potato can tonify deficiency, strengthen spleen and stimulate appetite, and strengthen kidney yin", and said that people in the sea can eat for a long time. Chinese medicine regards sweet potato as a good medicine.
3. Purple sweet potato is rich in selenium and anthocyanin besides the nutrients of ordinary sweet potato. Anthocyanin can prevent and treat 100 diseases, and is known as the seventh essential nutrient after water, protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals.
4. Purple sweet potato is rich in cellulose, which can increase the volume of feces, promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, clean up mucus, gas accumulation and corruption in intestinal cavity, discharge toxic substances and carcinogens in feces, keep defecation unobstructed, improve the digestive tract environment, prevent gastrointestinal diseases, and help to detoxify and lose weight.
Three reasons to lose weight by eating sweet potatoes;
1, low calorie, full stomach
Sweet potatoes are low in calories and quite full. Whether it is a staple food or a non-staple food, it is a good diet food. The fat content of sweet potato per 100g is only 0.2g, which is 1/4 of that of rice. So sweet potato is the best food with low calorie and low fat.
2, rich in balanced nutrition
Sweet potatoes also contain balanced nutrition. Such as vitamins A, B, C, cellulose and potassium, iron, copper and other trace elements 10, in which cellulose has a good effect of stimulating intestinal peristalsis and promoting smooth excretion.
It can prevent sugar from becoming fat.
Because the fiber structure cannot be absorbed in the intestine, it has a special function of preventing sugar from becoming fat. Therefore, nutritionists call sweet potato the most balanced healthy food and the most ideal and cheapest diet food.
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