Yam yam itself is a kind of food with high nutrition and low calorie, and moderate consumption will not lead to obesity. Secondly, yam is rich in cellulose, which can make people feel full after eating, thus controlling their appetite to some extent. It is a natural diet food, which helps to lose weight.

Sweet potato sweet potato contains a lot of vitamins, dietary fiber and various mineral elements, among which vitamins can help the human body moisten the intestines, promote the digestion and absorption of food, and have a certain weight loss effect, while dietary fiber will expand after entering the human body, which can enhance the satiety of the human body and help to promote the human body to lose weight.

2 Which is higher in calories, yam or sweet potato? Sweet potatoes are high in calories.

Compared with the food with the same weight, every100g of yam contains about 57 calories, while every100g of sweet potato contains about 90 calories. In contrast, you will find that sweet potatoes have higher calories than yam.

The harm of eating yam often may lead to gynecological diseases.

Yam is mild and non-irritating, and moderate consumption is beneficial to human health. However, because yam contains a lot of diosgenin androgens, if women eat yam regularly, it may stimulate women's hormones, leading to endometrial hyperplasia, abnormal physiological period and irregular menstruation, so it is generally not recommended for women to eat yam regularly.

4 precautions for eating yam People who are allergic to yam should be careful. Generally speaking, people who are allergic to yam are not only advised to eat yam, because eating yam is prone to allergic symptoms such as redness, indigestion, headache, sore throat and asthma, which is not conducive to human health. Therefore, people who are allergic to yam are generally advised to eat yam carefully.

Not suitable for raw yam. Raw yam contains certain toxic substances, which makes people easy to be poisoned when they eat it. Therefore, it is generally recommended not to eat raw yam.

Avoid eating yam with alkaline drugs. Amylases are generally alkaline. When yam is combined with alkaline drugs, alkaline drugs will make amylase in yam ineffective, reduce the nutritional value of yam and affect the absorption of medicinal effects. Therefore, it is suggested to avoid eating yam with alkaline drugs.