If you really want to lose weight by eating sweet potatoes, it is recommended to take boiled sweet potatoes as the staple food, so that sweet potatoes without deep processing not only retain their own nutritional value, but also will not increase too much calories. Or you can cook sweet potatoes in rice porridge, which is also a good choice. However, although sweet potato is good, you can't eat too much, because the sugar in sweet potato is high. Eating too much may produce a lot of stomach acid, which makes people feel heartbroken.
Nutritional value and weight loss effect of sweet potato
Sweet potato is rich in nutrients, including protein, fat, polysaccharide, phosphorus, calcium, potassium, carotene, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, vitamin B 1, vitamin B2 and 8 kinds of amino acids. These substances play an important role in promoting the activity of human brain cells and secreting hormones, enhancing human disease resistance, improving immune function, and delaying mental decline and physical aging.
Sweet potato is called diet food because it contains little fat but is rich in unsaturated fatty acids. If you take sweet potato as the staple food and eat it every meal, it can not only promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and improve digestion, but also prevent the intestinal tract from absorbing fat and cholesterol, decompose cholesterol in the body and promote fat metabolism.
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