I believe everyone is familiar with sweet potato leaves. When I was a child, I cut pig grass, and there must be sweet potato vines in it. Sweet potato vine is thick and long, and it is an important feed for raising livestock. In addition, sweet potato tip is also a vegetable that we eat every day, and its popularity is not low. Known as "Longevity Vegetable" and "Vegetable Queen" in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Sweet potato is a convolvulus plant. Different varieties have different colors and shapes similar to morning glory. In my hometown, sweet potatoes can be planted all year round, but the sweet potato leaves in the climbing stage in August and September are the most tender and delicious. Picked after fog in the morning, sweet potatoes stay on the leaves before they can absorb water and nutrition. At this time, the picked sweet potato tips have higher nutritional value and better taste.

This vegetable is eaten a lot, but do you know its nutritional value? Sweet potato leaves are rich in vitamin C, vitamin B2, carotene and α-tocopherol, and also rich in calcium, phosphorus and iron, which can meet most minerals needed by human body. These nutrients are incomparable to other vegetables.

Sweet potato leaves have many uses, such as improving immunity, preventing hypertension, preventing constipation and lowering cholesterol; Plus sweet potato leaves are rich in chlorophyll, which can purify blood and help detoxify. So many benefits to the human body can be seen everywhere in the countryside, which can be described as quite low-key.

Nowadays people yearn for health and pay more attention to eating habits. Eating sweet potato leaves is a good choice. Boiled a little, sweet potato leaves are very refreshing and delicious. Pepper choking sweet potato leaves, garlic lard frying sweet potato leaves, clear soup sweet potato leaves, oil-consuming sweet potato leaves and other ways to eat.

Sweet potato leaves are rich in fiber, slightly cool, and people with gastrointestinal stagnation or poor digestive ability should not eat them. Everyone should choose a recipe that suits them. Only when they are healthy can they enjoy more delicious food ~