Purple sweet potato is an alkaline food, which is beneficial to maintain the acid-base balance of blood. Sweet potato contains a lot of mucin and mucopolysaccharide, which can keep the elasticity of human blood vessel wall, prevent the occurrence of atherosclerosis and keep the lubrication of respiratory tract, digestive tract and joint cavity.

The starch cellulose contained in purple sweet potato can absorb a lot of water in the intestine, which is beneficial to prevent constipation and reduce the occurrence of intestinal cancer.

Purple potato is also an ideal diet food. Its calorie content is very low, much lower than ordinary rice, so eating it can play a role in losing weight. Purple sweet potato also contains a substance similar to estrogen, which has a certain effect on protecting human skin and delaying aging, so many foreign women regard sweet potato as beauty food.

Taro is rich in nutrition, containing carbohydrate 13%, mainly starch. It contains about 2% protein and almost no fat. Taro also contains potassium, calcium, carotene, vitamin C, B vitamins, saponins and other ingredients, among which fluorine content is high, which has the function of protecting teeth.

Taro contains a natural polysaccharide plant gum, which can stimulate appetite, help digestion and stop diarrhea. At the same time, it has the function of dietary fiber, which can moisten the intestines to relieve constipation and prevent constipation; It can also improve the body's disease resistance and help to recover after illness.

Taro can be used as staple food, vegetables, steamed food and soup, and all kinds of cooking methods are delicious. However, because taro contains more starch, it is advisable to take 50 ~100g at a time. Avoid raw food, which will irritate your throat.

Taro contains a mucin, which can be absorbed by the human body to produce immunoglobulin or antibody globulin, which can improve the body's resistance. Therefore, Chinese medicine believes that taro can detoxify, inhibit and digest swelling and toxic pain of human body, including cancer toxin, and can be used to prevent and treat tumors and lymphoid tuberculosis.

Taro is an alkaline food, which can neutralize acidic substances accumulated in the body, adjust the acid-base balance of human body, produce beauty beauty and blacken hair, and can also be used for preventing and treating hyperacidity.