There are many ways to eat yam. Yam can be cooked with rice, millet and red dates. Turn into miscellaneous grains porridge or thin soft rice. Yam can also be ground into powder and mixed with rice flour, similar to lotus root starch. Yam can also be steamed and made into blueberry yam. Yam is usually fried and eaten in soup. Another way, you can have breakfast, such as steaming and cooking porridge. Long yam, especially the iron bar, has the effect of invigorating spleen and benefiting qi, but the time of eating is also very particular. At about eight o'clock in the morning, the spleen meridian is the most vigorous. At this time, steaming long yam will make the beneficial ingredients of food better absorbed by human body. When it comes to breakfast, yam porridge is indispensable, and yam is a kind of porridge material with a wide range of uses. Add yam slices and a few torn red dates when cooking porridge, which is most suitable for children and the elderly. Yam porridge is very easy to digest. In addition, people with weak spleen and stomach or indigestion are also suitable for drinking yam porridge. In addition, you can also make jujube yam porridge such as peanut yam porridge, medlar yam porridge, longan yam porridge and pumpkin yam porridge. Raw materials: red dates 10, fresh yam 200g, japonica rice 1 00g, and appropriate amount of sugar:1. Soak japonica rice and red dates for half an hour in advance, drop a few drops of oil in japonica rice and mix well. Peel the yam, cut it into small grains and soak it to prevent discoloration. 3. Pour a proper amount of water into the pot, add glutinous rice and stir. After the water is boiled, cook on low heat. 4. After the rice grains become soft, pour in yam and red dates, simmer slowly with a small fire, and stir with a spoon until the rice porridge is sticky and soft. Diabetic patients should avoid eating more yam, which can effectively improve hyperglycemia. Mannan in yam can regulate sugar metabolism and slow down blood sugar absorption. In addition, the sticky components in yam are formed by mucin, which can wrap other foods in the intestine and slow the absorption of sugar. This effect can inhibit the sharp rise of postprandial blood sugar, and avoid excessive insulin secretion, so that blood sugar can be better regulated. Yam is a kind of rhizome food, and its starch content is higher than that of ordinary vegetables. If you eat too much, it will not lower your blood sugar, but will lead to an increase in your blood sugar. Therefore, diabetics should not eat too much yam at a time. If some patients prefer to eat yam, then it is necessary to appropriately reduce the amount of staple food to control blood sugar, otherwise it will be counterproductive. Eat more yam if you want to lose weight. Yam is low in fat and rich in soluble dietary fiber. After absorbing water, the volume expands, which is easy to increase people's satiety. It has a good auxiliary effect on controlling appetite and slimming. During the period of losing weight, yam can be used as a staple food or an auxiliary food to satisfy hunger, which can not only avoid the harm caused by excessive dieting, but also achieve the purpose of losing weight. 2, yam red bean porridge material: 50 grams of yam, 30 grams of red beans, the right amount of salt. Practice: Wash the adzuki beans, cook until half cooked, then add the chopped yam and cook until the porridge is cooked. Eating yam for patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases is rich in vitamins and minerals, which is beneficial to the health of the heart and brain. Active ingredients such as glycoprotein and mannan contained in fresh tubers can also effectively prevent blood lipids from depositing on blood vessel walls, thus playing a role in preventing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as hypertension and arteriosclerosis. 2, yam shrimp sauce yam washed, smashed into a paste for use. Add the washed shrimp skin, yellow wine, chopped green onion and Jiang Mo into the water boiled over medium fire, and continue to simmer for 10 minute, add yam paste, stir and simmer until boiling, add refined salt, monosodium glutamate and spiced powder, and share them in the morning and evening. It can moisten blood vessels, strengthen kidney and lower blood pressure, and is mainly used to treat hypertension with yin deficiency of liver and kidney. Precautions: First, when eating hot pot, it is best to eat less yam. Yam itself is a tonic. When eating hot pot, plus the role of spicy ingredients, flat yam has a certain amount of heat and is easy to get angry. Second, men suffer from prostate cancer and women suffer from breast cancer. Diosgenin contained in yam can synthesize hormones such as testosterone and estrogen in human body. Therefore, it is not suitable for male prostate cancer patients and female breast cancer patients. Third, people with constipation eat less. Yam is rich in starch. People with abdominal distension, dry stool and constipation had better eat less. You can eat yam again after these symptoms are relieved.