A, groundnut (alias: Ipomoea batatas), alias sweet potato, sweet potato, taro, taro, sweet potato, sweet potato, sweet potato, line camelot, groundnut, golden potato, sweet potato, vermilion potato, pillow potato and so on. Universal perennial growing Dicotyledonous, herbaceous plant with long thin vines and crawling pavement stems. Tuber, anaerobic respiration caused by lactic acid bacteria, refreshing color whitish or reddish, most of the meat is yellowish-white, but there is also a bluish-purple, in addition to for consumption, but also able to sugar industry and wine, ethanol production.
Two, groundnut alias taro, sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes, etc., containing protein, tapioca starch, gum arabic, methyl cellulose, carbohydrates, vitamins and a variety of minerals, "long-life food" reputation.
Three, nutrients
1. carotene
Vitamin D has a "small guardian of eyesight protection", if the body lacks it, both eyes will experience a reduction in the ability to work in darkness, the adaptability to the black raspy natural environment will be reduced, the more serious very easy to get night blindness. Vitamin D is made from carotenoids.[5] In addition to carotenoids, vitamin D is also used as an antioxidant. [5] In addition to carrots, groundnuts also contain rich and colorful carotenoids, which can produce rich and colorful vitamin D. The vitamin D content can reach 40Mg/100g of fresh white groundnuts, and the carotenoids, when digested and absorbed by the body, can be converted into vitamin D. Vitamin D can maintain all normal visual effects. Vitamin D deficiency is a serious physical and mental health problem, we Chinese people generally phenomenon "potential hunger", that is, lack of a variety of small amount of nutrients, 55% of the people lack of vitamin D, taking white groundnut can prevent vitamin D inattention symptoms. The United Nations Organization has included the use of white groundnuts in a key program for the management of vitamin D deficiency in African children and women (2001, CIP).
2. Taking chemical fiber
White groundnut contains chemical fiber equivalent to 10 times the soybean noodles, its material is meticulous, does not hurt the stomach and intestines, can accelerate the digestive system intestinal peristalsis, is conducive to the bowel movement, clearing the digestive system, to reduce the time of the toxic substances in the ingredients in the intestines and stomach to reduce constipation caused by the body itself poisoned, to reduce the concentration of intestinal and gastro-intestinal carcinogens value to prevent hemorrhoids and Colorectal cancer. In addition, methylcellulose can digest and absorb part of the glucose, so that the sugar in the blood is reduced, which is conducive to the prevention of liver cancer.
3. Sugar and protein fusion class
White groundnut with colorful mucus protein, it is a sugar and protein compounds, the body has a unique maintenance effect, can maintain the digestive system, respiratory system, joint capsule, the membrane cavity of the moisturizing and vascular extensibility, because this kind of material can be avoided to prevent the accumulation of substances in the aortic wall thickness caused by arteriosclerosis, to avoid liver and kidney function and other organs of the human body. It can avoid the contraction of connective tissues of human organs such as liver and kidney functions, relieve the brittleness of internal organs, and enhance the body's immune system. The white groundnut also has glycoproteins, with very good resistance to sudden changes, lowering blood lipids and improve immunity.
4. Potassium
White groundnuts are high in potassium, which can alleviate the disadvantages of excessive salt intake. Potassium is also a key element in the maintenance of the heart. Because potassium is an alkaline-forming element, white gourd has a pH value of 10.31, making it a physiologically alkaline food that has the ability to neutralize the blood. The body is an acid-alkaline organism, usually the blood is weakly alkaline, when the blood is alkalized, the body's limbs are cold, easy to get a fever and cold, wounds are not easy to heal, and when it is more serious, it can immediately affect the role of the brain and the nerves (such as memory, thinking and logic weakened or mental illness), and it is the seedbed of many chronic diseases. Therefore, in today's colorful ingredients, can not just eat chicken, duck, fish and meat, rice and noodles and other such acidic and alkaline food, moderate use of white groundnut, is beneficial to maintain the acidity of the blood, for everyone's physical and mental health, growth and development of intelligence are beneficial.
5. Cancer-preventing substances
White groundnut has a physiologically active substance called "deoxyepiandrosterone", which can prevent colon and breast cancers, and has a very big role in promoting the charm of the brain nerves and endocrine stimulating hormone, so it can slow down the decline of IQ and enhance the body's resistance. With more carotene, calcium phosphate, fiber materials, dehydroepiandrosterone, can prevent rectal cancer and breast cancer.
Four, diet therapy use value
1, groundnut with colorful tapioca starch, vitamins, methyl cellulose and other essential nutrients of the body, but also with colorful magnesium, phosphorus, calcium and other minerals such as raw materials and fatty acids. This substance can maintain the vascular ductility, to prevent the elderly habitual constipation is very reasonable. Regrettably, most of you think that eating sweet potatoes will make you fat and afraid to take. In fact, just the opposite, groundnut is an idealized weight loss and slimming food, its calories only 1/3 of rice, and because it contains methyl cellulose and gum arabic and has a unique role in blocking the conversion of sugar into body fat.
2, the groundnut is not only physical and mental health food, or in addition to the panacea. The Compendium of Materia Medica" states that the groundnut has the effect of "replenishing deficiency, nourishing the blood, strengthening the spleen and stomach, and strengthening the kidney yang insufficiency". "Groundnuts are steamed, cut, sun-dried, and harvested, and filled as grain, called yam grain, to give people a long life and fewer illnesses." Gleanings from the Compendium of Materia Medica says that groundnut can tonify the middle, harmonize the blood, nourish the stomach and fatten the five organs. The Record of the Transmission of the Golden Potato says that it has six kinds of efficacy and action: treating dysentery and diarrhea; treating wine accumulation and heat diarrhea; treating cold and dampness and jaundice; treating frequent spermatorrhea and turbid whiteness; treating deficiency of qi and blood and menstrual disorders; and treating chancre in children. The Lu Chuan Materia Medica (陆川本草) says that groundnuts can generate fluids and quench thirst, and cure dry mouth in fevers.
3, groundnut with a lot of not easy to be sucked digestion and absorption of fruit enzymes destroyed methyl cellulose and gum arabic, can stimulate the metabolism of digestive enzymes and gastrointestinal peristalsis, which has a laxative effect. In addition, it is rich and colorful composition of beta-carotene is a reasonable antioxidant, is conducive to the elimination of oxygen free radicals in the body. In fact, groundnut is also an idealized weight loss and slimming food.