As a common perennial dicotyledonous plant, sweet potato is a kind of herb with slender vines and stolons. The root tuber produces lactic acid through anaerobic respiration, and its skin is white or red. In recent years, there are yellow-skinned varieties, the meat is mostly yellow-white and purple, which can be eaten by human beings. Its stems and leaves and sweet potatoes themselves can also be used as livestock feed, sugar and wine, as well as alcohol, starch and starch foods.

Baked sweet potato effect:

Anticancer effect

Recently, medical workers in China conducted a survey on the hometown of centenarians in western Guangxi, and found that all the longevity elders here have a common feature, that is, they are used to eating sweet potatoes every day, and even regard sweet potatoes as their staple food.

Coincidentally, the list of 20 kinds of anti-cancer vegetables recently published by the National Cancer Research Center of Japan is: sweet potato, asparagus, cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, celery, eggplant, pepper, carrot, cauliflower, rape, kohlrabi, mustard, tomato, Komatsu, onion, garlic and cucumber, among which sweet potato ranks first.

Weight loss effect

Sweet potato is rich in essential nutrients such as starch, vitamins and cellulose, as well as mineral elements such as magnesium, phosphorus and calcium and linoleic acid. These substances can maintain the elasticity of blood vessels and are very effective in preventing and treating habitual constipation in the elderly. Unfortunately, most people think that eating sweet potatoes will make people fat and dare not eat them. In fact, on the contrary, sweet potato is an ideal diet food, its calorie is only 1/3 of that of rice, and because it is rich in cellulose and pectin, it has the special function of preventing sugar from transforming into fat.

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