Sweet potato tastes sweet and contains many substances that are very beneficial to the human body, so many people like to eat sweet potato very much. Many people often worry about gaining weight when eating sweet potato, but in fact, as long as they eat sweet potato, they will not gain weight and may help to lose weight. So how do you eat sweet potatoes to lose weight? What is the specific method of eating sweet potato to lose weight?

1, how to eat sweet potatoes to lose weight

1. Control food intake

Although sweet potatoes are good, you can't eat more. No matter how good things are, eating too much will have a bad effect. 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. Secondly, sweet potato has a high sugar content. Eating too much will produce a lot of stomach acid, which makes people feel heartbroken.

Eat with other foods.

Sweet potato lacks protein and lipids, so it should be eaten with vegetables, fruits and protein foods to avoid nutritional imbalance.

3. Replace some staple foods with sweet potatoes.

Sweet potato is full and can be eaten as a staple food. But it can't completely replace staple foods such as rice. You can use sweet potatoes and rice to make sweet potato rice, or you can eat rice while eating sweet potatoes, but you should reduce the consumption of rice.

2. How to eat sweet potatoes to lose weight

First, replace some staple foods with sweet potatoes:

That is, 1-2 meals use sweet potatoes instead of polished rice noodles. However, it should be noted that the calorie of sweet potato itself is not very low. To control the total amount of food, it can be controlled at about 200 grams per meal. A medium-sized sweet potato is about 200 grams.

Second, sweet potato porridge or boiled.

Peel the sweet potato and cut into pieces, then mix with white rice and cook it into porridge or rice.

In short, eating sweet potatoes in moderation can reduce weight, relieve constipation, fight cancer and resist aging. There should be more sweet potatoes on the dining table of modern families.

3, sweet potato diet

1. sweet potato porridge

Ingredients: fresh sweet potato 250g, rice100g.

Practice: Wash the sweet potato (red skin and yellow heart is the best), cut the skin into small pieces, add water and cook porridge with rice.

2. Salted sweet potato rice

Ingredients: sweet potato 1 kg, half a catty of rice, 2 tablespoons chopped green onion, oil 1 tablespoon, salt 1/2 tablespoons.

Practice: Wash sweet potatoes, cut into pieces, and drain water; Add oil to the wok, stir-fry the sweet potato in the wok until fragrant, and add salt; Add the right amount of water, then pour the rice on the sweet potato and simmer on low heat.

3. Sweet potato jiaozi

Ingredients: sweet potato, sweet potato starch and powdered sugar.

Practice: Peel and slice the sweet potato, steam it, put it in a big bowl and grind it into sweet potato paste. Add sweet potato starch and a little powdered sugar (not too much, just knead mashed potatoes into balls). Knead and knead by hand, and finally become smooth mashed potato dough. Take a portion of mashed potato dough and knead it into long strips and cut it into small pieces. Roll some starch to prevent sticking, put it in a fresh-keeping bag or box for quick freezing and enjoy it slowly.

4. Pay attention to eating sweet potatoes

The first condition is to try not to eat on an empty stomach. Eating sweet potato on an empty stomach has a great chance of acid reflux and heartburn, because sweet potato itself contains relatively high carbohydrates and has a certain sweetness, which increases the possibility of reflux.

The second is that it is best not to eat more than three or two sweet potatoes a day. And if you have acid reflux, you can eat three or two separately.

Third, don't eat red sweet potatoes with things that are too sweet. Sweet potato itself is sweet. If you eat sweets together at this time, the possibility of reflux will double, so don't eat sweet potatoes with things that are too sweet.