'Golden' nutrition from sweet potatoes

Sweet potatoes not only have high nutritional value but also have disease prevention and treatment properties.

Scientific studies show that sweet potatoes not only have high nutritional value but also have disease prevention and treatment properties and are one of the foods that create good immunity for the body.

Sweet potatoes, also known as sweet potatoes (scientific name: Ipomoea batatas). In the classification system, sweet potatoes are "related" to potatoes, both originating from South America.

Sweet potatoes contain a unique protein that has antioxidant effects:

Sweet potatoes contain a unique protein that has significant antioxidant properties.

Research shows that the proteins have about one-third the antioxidant activity of glutathione - one of the body's important products that plays a role in creating antioxidants in the body.

Although more research is needed in the future, these proteins help explain the medicinal properties of sweet potatoes.

Besides the role of supplementing nutrients and minerals necessary for the human body, sweet potatoes also have the effect of beautifying, losing weight, reducing stress and improving the spirit very effectively.

Sweet potatoes are a valuable nutritional source.

The food rating system shows that sweet potatoes are a traditional nutrient-dense food. Sweet potato tubers are an excellent source of vitamin A (in the form of beta-carotene), a significant source of vitamin C and manganese. Sweet potatoes also contain copper, dietary fiber, and high amounts of vitamin B6, potassium and iron.

Known as a “super nutritious” tuber, sweet potatoes are famous for their outstandingly high nutritional content. Not only possessing vitamins A, C, B and fiber, this food also contains many beneficial minerals such as calcium, iron, potassium…

Rich in antioxidants

With significant amounts of vitamin A (in the form of beta-carotene) and vitamin C, sweet potatoes are an anti-inflammatory food that can help prevent and treat diseases. Both beta-carotene and vitamin C have great antioxidant potential, helping the body effectively eliminate free radicals.

Due to their anti-inflammatory properties, sweet potatoes may be helpful in reducing the likelihood of developing inflammatory diseases, such as asthma, arthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis. Free radicals are chemicals that damage cells and cell membranes and are associated with the development of conditions such as atherosclerosis, diabetes, heart disease, and colon cancer. This may explain why both beta-carotene and vitamin C are effective in preventing free radicals.

Additionally, sweet potatoes are a source of vitamin B6, which is needed to convert homocysteine, a product of the “methylation” process that creates an important amino acid in cells, into harmless molecules. High homocysteine ​​levels have been linked to an increased risk of heart attack and stroke.

There are many different types of sweet potatoes such as white sweet potatoes, purple sweet potatoes, red sweet potatoes... Red sweet potatoes have more micronutrients than white sweet potatoes.

Active ingredients in white sweet potatoes can treat diabetes

All varieties produce tubers that are sweet in taste, to a greater or lesser extent. Despite their sweetness, sweet potatoes are actually a good food for diabetics, as studies have shown that they help stabilize blood sugar levels and reduce insulin resistance.

White sweet potatoes are commonly grown in mountainous areas. Caiapo, an extract from white sweet potatoes, can effectively control blood sugar and cholesterol levels in type 2 diabetes. This substance has been developed in Japan into a dietary supplement for diabetic patients.

Research at the University of Vienna (Austria) investigated the mode of action and effectiveness of Caiapo from sweet potatoes tested on people with type 2 diabetes with a dose of 12 weeks.

The results showed that treatment with Caiapo extracted from sweet potatoes reduced hemoglobin A-1c (HbA1c), a marker of excess blood sugar. Blood sugar levels in the group using Caiapo from sweet potatoes were also significantly reduced.

In addition, blood cholesterol levels also decreased. The above results demonstrate that Caiapo extracted from sweet potatoes is a very effective substance in controlling type 2 diabetes without causing any side effects to the patient.

Medicine from sweet potatoes

Cure for hot season flu: tHot weather can easily cause fever due to colds and not being able to sweat. For people with good health, you can cook white sweet potatoes with green mustard greens and eat them instead of rice to help you sweat, reduce fever, and relieve colds. You can use the following remedies:

A handful of dried white sweet potatoes, a piece of turmeric, 1/2 cup of vinegar, boil and drink hot.

16g dried white sweet potato, 16g ginger, decoct to drink or cook porridge.

Boil fresh white sweet potatoes to steam, then eat hot potatoes, drink hot potato water to sweat.

1 sweet potato (400g), 200g rice, 1/2 bowl of green beans, 4 Chinese yams, 1 radish, 3 cloves of garlic, 150g chicken, 70g shrimp, spices. Crush or chop everything and cook until soft. Add the green beans and Chinese yams later and cook until soft.

Sweet potato is a medicine that has long been used in folk medicine, some places call it "Southern Ginseng".

Cure constipation:Eat boiled potatoes plain or with honey or sesame; eat with whole eggplant or julienned eggplant, mashed with potatoes. Other ways:

Drink potato water (potatoes must be washed).

Cook fresh or dried sweet potato with sesame and a little cinnamon flower.

Use the juice of boiled fresh or dried mashed potatoes. If you have hemorrhoids, drink this distilled water every morning for months.

Lack of milk:250g fresh young sweet potato leaves, 200g sliced ​​pork. Stir-fry until soft, add spices.

Mastitis:Peel and mash white sweet potatoes and apply to the breasts. You can also combine them with mashed garlic.

Treatment of cassava poisoning:Peel and mash sweet potatoes, add water, squeeze out the juice. Drink every 1/2 hour.

Jaundice:Cook thick porridge with potatoes, rice or cornstarch.

Boil:40g sweet potato, 40g dandelion leaves, sugar or molasses, crushed, wrapped in cloth, apply on boils. To draw out pus from burst boils, take 50g young sweet potato leaves, 12g mung beans, add a little salt, crushed, wrapped in cloth, apply.

Eat sweet potatoes properly

Sweet potatoes are sweet and delicious but not good for health

Many people when buying often prefer sweet potatoes that have been stored for a long time to be sweeter than newly dug sweet potatoes, because the amount of water in sweet potatoes stored for a long time will decrease after evaporation, increasing the sugar concentration in the sweet potatoes. During the storage process, water participates in the hydrolysis reaction of starch in the potatoes, the starch hydrolyzes into sugar, thus helping to increase the sugar content in the potatoes significantly.

However, eating too much sugar is not good for the body, so you should not intentionally store sweet potatoes for a long time before eating. Moreover, although sweet potatoes stored for a long time are not as dangerous as potato sprouts, it is still recommended not to eat them because potato sprouts contain toxins, which can cause vomiting, stomachaches, etc.

Sweet potatoes are healthy but you have to know how to eat them properly.

The best time to eat is at noon.

Eating potatoes is very good for health, but you should choose the right time to eat for each person. The elderly and people with poor digestion should not eat at night because it is easy to get acid reflux, indigestion, and insomnia.

If you eat it for breakfast, you should eat it with whole milk or yogurt, add some seeds and green vegetables to have a breakfast full of nutrients needed for the body.

The golden time to enjoy sweet potatoes is lunch. The reason comes from the high calcium content in this “super nutritious” tuber.

The best time to eat sweet potatoes is at lunch, because after eating, the calcium in sweet potatoes needs 4-5 hours to be absorbed into the body, the afternoon sunlight can promote the absorption of this calcium. When eating sweet potatoes at lunch, the calcium can be fully absorbed before dinner, and will not affect the absorption of calcium from other foods eaten at dinner.

According to Zing.vn