Sweet potatoes are a common food in our lives. Sweet potatoes are rich in crude fiber, vitamins, and minerals. Regular consumption of sweet potatoes has many benefits for your health. It can protect the heart and resist cardiovascular disease. It has cancer, intestinal moisturizing, anti-aging and weight loss effects. Autumn is the season when sweet potatoes are ripe. At this time, many people will buy more sweet potatoes and make dried sweet potatoes. They are very delicious and can be eaten all winter long.
How to steam dried sweet potatoes
1. The best choice for making dried sweet potatoes is those that have been stored in the cellar, because the sweet potatoes at this time have a higher sugar content and starch content. It has been converted into sugar and tastes sweeter. Wash the sweet potatoes, put them in a pot and steam them over high heat for about seven or eight minutes. Don't steam them too much. As long as the skin on the outside of the sweet potatoes can be pushed open, you can turn off the heat.
2. Let the sweet potatoes cool and peel them. Be sure to let them all cool, and then cut them into small pieces with a knife. This will not break easily. You can decide the size by yourself. If you like to eat them in strips, you can cut them into strips. shape. If the sweet potatoes are not big enough, they can be cut in half. Arrange the cut sweet potatoes in order and put them in the sun. After a day in the sun, put the sweet potatoes in the pot again to steam them. We can find that the color of the sweet potatoes becomes darker and darker. When it turns red, steam it for 5 minutes after the water boils.
3. Let the steamed sweet potatoes cool, then use a sieve, place them one by one, and continue to expose them to the sun. In this way, dry them three times and steam them three times. Finally, the moisture of the sweet potatoes will become soft and waxy. If the sweet potato has a high sugar content, there will be a layer of white frost on the surface, which is icing sugar and is very sweet.
The nutritional value of sweet potatoes
1. Wide intestine and laxative
After cooking, part of the starch in sweet potatoes will change, and it can increase by about 40% when compared with raw food. The dietary fiber can effectively stimulate intestinal peristalsis and promote defecation. When people cut sweet potatoes, they see a white liquid oozing out from under the skin of the sweet potatoes, which contains purpuraside. This substance can be used to treat habitual constipation.
2. Hexuebuzhong
The nutritional value of sweet potatoes is very high. It contains a large amount of sugar, protein, fat and various vitamins and minerals. It is easily digested and absorbed by the human body. It can prevent and treat malnutrition, and can replenish the middle and replenish qi. Regular consumption of it is of great help to diseases such as deficiency of the spleen and stomach in the middle burner and malnutrition in children.
3. Anti-cancer and anti-cancer
Sweet potatoes contain an anti-cancer substance that can effectively prevent and treat colon cancer and breast cancer. In addition, sweet potatoes also have the effect of eliminating reactive oxygen species, which is one of the main causes of cancer. Therefore, sweet potatoes have a very obvious effect in inhibiting the proliferation of cancer cells.
4. Enhance immune function
Sweet potatoes contain a large amount of mucus protein, which can prevent the atrophy of connective tissue in the liver and kidneys, improve human immunity, and prevent the occurrence of collagen disease. The minerals contained in sweet potatoes play a very important role in maintaining and regulating human body functions. The calcium and magnesium contained in it can also prevent osteoporosis. Therefore, eating sweet potatoes in moderation is very helpful to your health.