Sweet potato:its health preservation benetis and values.
Introduction of Sweet potato.
Sweet potatoes are seemingly ordinary, but for the elderly is a rare health products.
Sweet potato is rich in protein, starch, pectin, cellulose, amino acids, vitamins and a variety of minerals, and has the reputation of "longevity food". It contains 15 to 20 percent sugar. Anti-cancer, heart protection, prevention of emphysema, diabetes, weight loss, and other effects. Herbalist Li Shizhen of Ming dynasty and his works Ben Cao Gang Mu(Compendium of materia medica) recorded that "sweet potato tonic deficiency, benefit spleen and boost appetite, strong kidney Yin," and said that people in the sea eat it and longevity.
Sweet potato:its health preservation benetis and values.
✵Anti-Cancer star: sweet potatoes
Sweet potato is not only food but also a kind of medicine commonly used in Traditional Chinese Medicine. So what are the specific benefits of sweet potatoes?
Sweet potato can replenish the spleen and boost appetite, strong kidney Yin, laxative and aid bowel movement, treat constipation. A lot of old people, bodily function recession, gastric and bowel no vigor, bring constipation, eat a few sweet potatoes to be able to receive surprise effect more at this time. Emperor suffered from constipation in his later years, not only abdominal distention, lack of appetite, but also bad mood. After he ate sweet potato for a while, bowels open, great joy, from then on sweet potato was well known for the good taste of health, and people widely planted it. This is because sweet potato contains rich cellulose, not only can protect stomach and intestines from injury by hard mass food, but also can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, increase defecate volume, make the person defecate unobstructed.
In addition, sweet potatoes are stars for anti-cancer. Sweet potatoes topped a list of 20 cancer-fighting vegetables released by the national cancer research center. Most importantly, sweet potatoes are not expensive. In the age of cancer, eating sweet potatoes to fight cancer is very cheap.
Sweet potatoes can be eaten in a variety of ways, including boiling, steaming, baking, or raw. And taking the boiled sweet potato could achieve the better effects. First, wash the sweet potatoes, and then heat the water to boiling, quickly put the sweet potatoes into the water, make it to reach half cooked in a short time, and then use a slow fire to cook for 10 minutes, make the temperature in the pot roughly maintained at 60 degrees, and then cook in the high heat, sweet potatoes cooked by this way taste better.
Sweet potatoes are good, but not for everyone. Chinese medicine believes that QI stagnation and dyspepsia(food retention) patients should be careful to eat sweet potatoes. The patient of QI stagnation and dyspepsia(food retention) eats a bit to be able to indigestion slightly, and increase the burden of the stomach and spleen. At this time eats sweet potato, can aggravate the spleen stomach burden, is extremely disadvantageous to the health. But you can drink some sweet potato porridge, good for spleen and stomach exercise. Sweet potatoes also produce acid in the stomach, so people with gastric ulcers should not eat them.
Sweet clew: choose and buy, better choose thoese shape not too long, not too round, and the color of skin better be red, such sweet potato nutrition is rich, better not eat moldy or bud sweet potato. If want to reduce weight, better not eat potato of French fries, caramelized sweet potato, because the sweet potato with such cooking added a lot of adipose and candy, its nutrition structure is inferior to before, go against reducing weight. Besides, sweet potatoes, although delicious and sweet, should not be eaten more. Eat more sweet potato to be able to bring about QI stagnation, heartburn, vomit acerbity water, abdominal distension and exhaust, you should better eat the right amount.
Sweet potatoes are seemingly ordinary, but for the elderly is a rare health products.
✵Anti-Cancer star: sweet potatoes
In addition, sweet potatoes are stars for anti-cancer. Sweet potatoes topped a list of 20 cancer-fighting vegetables released by the national cancer research center. Most importantly, sweet potatoes are not expensive. In the age of cancer, eating sweet potatoes to fight cancer is very cheap.
Sweet potatoes are good, but not for everyone. Chinese medicine believes that QI stagnation and dyspepsia(food retention) patients should be careful to eat sweet potatoes. The patient of QI stagnation and dyspepsia(food retention) eats a bit to be able to indigestion slightly, and increase the burden of the stomach and spleen. At this time eats sweet potato, can aggravate the spleen stomach burden, is extremely disadvantageous to the health. But you can drink some sweet potato porridge, good for spleen and stomach exercise. Sweet potatoes also produce acid in the stomach, so people with gastric ulcers should not eat them.
Sweet clew: choose and buy, better choose thoese shape not too long, not too round, and the color of skin better be red, such sweet potato nutrition is rich, better not eat moldy or bud sweet potato. If want to reduce weight, better not eat potato of French fries, caramelized sweet potato, because the sweet potato with such cooking added a lot of adipose and candy, its nutrition structure is inferior to before, go against reducing weight. Besides, sweet potatoes, although delicious and sweet, should not be eaten more. Eat more sweet potato to be able to bring about QI stagnation, heartburn, vomit acerbity water, abdominal distension and exhaust, you should better eat the right amount.
