Sweet potato not only has balanced nutrition, but also has little-known functions such as preventing sub-health, losing weight, bodybuilding and anti-cancer. Because sweet potato contains a lot of starch, it is easy to make people feel full after eating, thus reducing their food intake, so they can achieve the effect of losing weight.
1. Sweet potato is rich in sugar, protein, mucin, lysine and various vitamins, among which β-carotene, vitamin E and vitamin C are the highest. In particular, sweet potatoes are rich in lysine, while rice and flour just lack lysine. Therefore, the mixture of sweet potato and rice flour can play a complementary role in protein and improve the nutritional value.
2. Sweet potato contains a lot of dietary fiber, carotene, vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin C, vitamin E, potassium, iron, copper, selenium, calcium and other trace elements. It has very high nutritional value and is called the most balanced healthy food by nutritionists.
3. After the sweet potato is cooked, some starch will change. Compared with raw food, it can increase dietary fiber by about 40%, which can effectively stimulate intestinal peristalsis and promote defecation.
4. Sweet potato has high nutritional value, and contains a lot of sugar, protein, fat and various vitamins and minerals. It is easy to be digested and absorbed by the human body, preventing malnutrition, supplementing the middle energizer and benefiting qi, and is of great help to diseases such as spleen and stomach weakness in middle energizer and malnutrition in children.