Sweet potatoes have many benefits. How to eat sweet potatoes healthily?

　　Sweet potatoes can prevent influenza

　　The weather is getting colder and the flu storm is coming again. USA media A recent article pointed out that sweet potatoes can help resist influenza and prevent and treat influenza. cold。

　　Sweet potatoes are the best food source of beta carotene, which helps the body produce enough white blood cells to fight infections caused by cold viruses.

　　There are many ways to eat sweet potatoes. They can be steamed, baked, or mashed.

　　Sweet potato soup can help you lose weight

　　Whole grains are rich in dietary fiber. After entering the intestines, they can clean up waste in the intestines, collect toxins and waste, and allow them to be smoothly excreted from the body. Sweet potatoes are also rich in dietary fiber and particularly rich in vitamins, which can create new cells in the intestines and promote metabolism.

　　sweet potato soup

　　The recipe for weight loss sweet potato soup is very simple:

　　1 sweet potato, peeled and shredded, 1/4 onion, cut into small pieces, appropriate amount of kelp, shredded, mushrooms shredded. Boil water in a pot, add sweet potato shreds, onion shreds, mushroom shreds, and kelp shreds into the soup and bring to a boil, then simmer over low heat for 10 minutes, add salt, chicken essence, and sesame oil to taste. This soup can smooth the blood flow and transport energy into the blood ； The kelp can not only bring out the delicious flavor of the soup, but also replenish minerals to the body.

　　Sweet potatoes must be fully cooked before eating

　　Sweet potatoes must be steamed and cooked thoroughly before eating, because the starch granules in sweet potatoes are difficult to digest without being destroyed by high temperatures.

　　Sweet potatoes contain an oxidase, which easily produces a large amount of carbon dioxide gas in the human gastrointestinal tract. If you eat too much sweet potatoes, it will cause abdominal distension, hiccups, and gas.

　　Eat sweet potato "heart-burning" with some pickles

　　Sweet potatoes have a high sugar content. Eating too much can stimulate a large amount of gastric acid secretion, making people feel "heartburn". Therefore, it is best to eat sweet potatoes with some pickles, which can effectively inhibit gastric acid.

　　Eat sweet potatoes with caution if you have indigestion

　　Sweet potatoes contain a lot of sugar, and the body cannot absorb it all at once. The remaining part stays in the intestines and is prone to fermentation, causing abdominal discomfort. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that people with dampness blocking the spleen and stomach, qi stagnation and food accumulation should eat sweet potatoes with caution.

　　Sweet potatoes and persimmons should not be eaten together

　　Sweet potatoes and persimmons should not be eaten at the same time within a short period of time, but should be eaten at least five hours apart. If eaten at the same time, the sugar in sweet potatoes will ferment in the stomach, which will increase gastric acid secretion and react with the tannins and pectin in persimmons to precipitate and condense, producing hard lumps. In severe cases, it can cause gastrointestinal bleeding or gastric ulcers. If you feel sick to your stomach, definitely go Hospital Get a gastroscopy to see if you have stomach bleeding or ulcers.

　　It’s best to eat sweet potatoes for lunch

　　Sweet potatoes lack protein and lipids, so they should be eaten with vegetables, fruits and protein foods to avoid nutritional imbalance. Best of all, sweet potatoes are best eaten around lunch time. This is because after we eat sweet potatoes, the calcium contained in them needs to be absorbed by the human body within 4 to 5 hours, and sunlight exposure in the afternoon can promote the absorption of calcium. By eating sweet potatoes for lunch, all calcium can be absorbed before dinner and will not affect the absorption of calcium from other foods at dinner.

　　Sweet potatoes will become sweeter if stored longer

　　First, if the sweet potatoes are stored for a long time, the water evaporation will decrease, which will relatively increase the concentration of sugar in the sweet potatoes.； Second, during the placement process, water participates in the hydrolysis reaction of the starch in the sweet potato, and the starch is hydrolyzed into sugar, which increases the sugar content in the sweet potato. Therefore, we feel that sweet potatoes that have been left for a long time are sweeter than newly dug sweet potatoes.