The benefits of eating more potatoes:
1 can strengthen the body, and potassium in potatoes can prevent hypertension. Because when the human body consumes too much salt, the sodium in the body will be high and the potassium will be insufficient. Potatoes are the most ideal source of potassium. Vitamin C in potatoes not only has a health care effect on brain cells, but also can lower blood cholesterol, make blood vessels elastic and prevent arteriosclerosis.
2, prevention of stroke: potatoes are rich in B vitamins and high-quality cellulose, which plays an important role in the anti-aging process of the human body. Potatoes are rich in dietary fiber and sucrose, which is helpful to prevent and treat digestive tract cancer and control the content of cholesterol in blood. Among them, protein can prevent cardiovascular diseases. Like other foods rich in potassium such as bananas, apricots and peaches, potatoes can reduce the risk of stroke without any side effects. Some scholars have pointed out that eating 1 potato every day can reduce the risk of stroke by 40%.
3, lose weight: First of all, eat potatoes without worrying about excess fat, because it only contains 0. 1% fat, which is beyond the reach of all other hungry foods. Eating more potatoes every day can reduce fat intake and gradually metabolize excess fat. Secondly, eating potatoes does not have to worry about single nutrition and is harmful to health. Potatoes contain second to none high-quality protein, which is not inferior to soybeans in both nutritional value and health care function; Even other nutrients needed by the human body, such as carbohydrates, various vitamins and minerals, are more comprehensive than rice noodles. In recent years, Italy, Spain, the United States, Canada, Russia and other countries have sprung up a number of potato dietotherapy restaurants with unique flavors to meet the daily needs of bodybuilders and dieters.
4, nourishing the stomach: Chinese medicine believes that potatoes can harmonize the stomach, spleen and qi, which is conducive to the treatment of gastric ulcer, habitual constipation and other diseases, as well as detoxification and anti-inflammatory effects. Potatoes contain a lot of starch, salt, alkaloids and so on. It has the functions of reducing tissue permeability, reducing exudation, anti-inflammatory and antiallergic.
The disadvantage is that potato solanine poisoning occurs.
1, do not eat immature green potatoes.
2. The part that has sprouted and turned blue and the rotten part on the potato should be thoroughly removed. If the blue area of potatoes is large and there are many sprouted parts, they should be thrown away.
3. Cut the peeled potatoes into small pieces and soak them in cold water for more than half an hour to make the remaining solanine dissolve in water.
4. Using the weak alkalinity of Solanum nigrum, adding proper amount of rice vinegar when cooking potatoes, and decomposing Solanum nigrum with the acidity of vinegar can play a detoxification role.
5. Boiled potatoes should be crispy and thoroughly burned. Long-term high temperature will partially decompose solanine.
If you feel a little numb in your mouth when eating potatoes, it means that potatoes still contain more solanine, so you should stop eating them immediately to prevent poisoning.
6. If pregnant women eat too much Solanum nigrum, it may cause fetal malformation, so pregnant women should be especially careful.