Sweet potato is a coarse grain with high crude fiber content. For people with constipation, eating some sweet potatoes properly at ordinary times is not only rich in nutritional value, but also can prevent constipation and has many benefits to health. There are many ways to eat sweet potatoes, and the production method is very simple. But generally speaking, most people eat sweet potatoes by stewing. What is the practice of stewing sweet potatoes with rice cookers?

Braised sweet potato with rice cooker

1. Ordinary rice cookers, add cold water to the rice cooker, the water is not too deep, about 3 cm is enough, which can also save time and put it in the steamer of the matching rice cooker.

2. Wash the sweet potatoes. If you don't like steaming with skin, cut it off with a paring knife! Sweet potato skin is not sweet, but the crude fiber content is high. If you want to treat constipation, you can keep the sweet potato skin. If it's delicious, you'd better cut it off.

3. Put the whole sweet potato into the steamer. If the whole sweet potato is too big, it can be cut into small pieces. After the sweet potato is put into the steamer, the rice cooker can cook for half an hour! If you are not sure whether it is ripe or not, you can insert bamboo chopsticks into the sweet potato, which is easy to penetrate and is ripe.

4. Steaming sweet potatoes with rice cookers is simple and convenient. Sweet potato is sweet and delicious, and it can also treat constipation and clean the stomach.

Sweet potato often has the following five benefits to our human body:

1. Prevent constipation

Sweet potato is a good food for relaxing bowels, mainly because it is rich in dietary fiber. Studies have shown that the fiber content of sweet potato is 10 times that of rice flour, so it can help accelerate gastrointestinal peristalsis, and then help defecation, thus alleviating constipation symptoms.

protect eyes

Sweet potato is rich in carotene, which can be converted into vitamin A, so sweet potato can provide rich vitamin A for human body, which is very helpful for maintaining normal visual function and preventing night blindness.

3. It's good for the heart

In addition to the carotene and vitamins mentioned above, sweet potato also contains potassium and folic acid, which are important components to protect cardiovascular system. Among them, potassium helps the human body to maintain the pH of body fluids and maintain normal blood pressure and heart function. Therefore, eating sweet potatoes regularly is good for preventing cardiovascular diseases.

4. Help to lose weight

Many people may be confused about losing weight with sweet potato, because sweet potato belongs to starchy food and should gain weight, but it is not. In fact, sweet potato is a good diet food. In addition to the laxative effect mentioned above, its calories are actually very low. 100 grams of sweet potato has only a quarter of the fat content of rice. In addition, it has the function of preventing sugar from becoming fat, so it has the effect of diabetes.

5. Anti-cancer effect

Studies have shown that sweet potato contains "deoxyepiandrosterone", which is an effective component to prevent colon cancer and breast cancer, so eating sweet potato often also has a certain anti-cancer effect.