When most people eat sweet potatoes, they peel them first and then eat them to enjoy their soft and sweet taste. Compared with sweet potato meat, sweet potato skin looks "ugly" and feels a little rough. However, sweet potato skin is not only edible, but also has many unexpected health care effects.
Sweet potato skin contains mucin, which can lower cholesterol and protect cardiovascular system.
Nutritionist Sun Yuting said that sweet potato skin is rich in "mucin", which is a kind of polysaccharide, which can reduce the content of cholesterol in blood and avoid fat deposition in cardiovascular system, thus maintaining the elasticity of blood vessels and helping to prevent cardiovascular problems such as arteriosclerosis and hypertension.
Sweet potato skin is rich in "mucin", which is a polysaccharide that can reduce the cholesterol content in the blood. Sweet potato skin is rich in fiber, which can control blood sugar and increase satiety.
Moreover, sweet potato skin is rich in dietary fiber, which can promote intestinal peristalsis and help stool formation. Proper supplementation can accelerate the discharge of wastes and toxins in the body and prevent constipation! In addition, dietary fiber can also delay the rise of postprandial blood sugar and increase satiety, which is very suitable for diabetics and people who lose weight.
In addition, eating sweet potatoes together with skin can also eat more vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals, which has many benefits! It would be a pity to throw away the skin every time you eat sweet potatoes. Of course, some people don't eat sweet potato skin because they are worried about pesticides and dirt on their skin; Therefore, it is very important to know how to clean the sweet potato skin correctly.
Scrubbing the sweet potato skin with flowing water can really remove the dirt and dirt on the sweet potato skin. Wash the sweet potato with flowing water to remove the dirt on the epidermis.
Sun Yuting, a nutritionist, suggested that you can prepare a toothbrush or a small brush like a common dish cloth to scrub the sweet potato skin in flowing water to remove the dirt and dirt on the sweet potato skin, especially the sunken part of the skin.
Don't forget! Be sure to brush in flowing clean water, not just in still water, so as not to let the dirt brushed down attach to the sweet potato skin again.