The appearance of sweet potato is spindle-shaped with obvious petal-like structure. The skin is yellowish and white, and the yellowish skin outside is peeling off. The meat inside is very white, and the texture of the meat looks a bit like sweet potato. When it matures to its peak, it will crackle when it is peeled off.
And you can vaguely see the traces of cracking. It tastes sweeter than sweet potato, crispy and delicious, and contains more water. It quenches thirst, and can be eaten raw as fruit or cold as a dish. It is a popular thirst quenching product in summer and autumn. Sweet potato is native to tropical America. America has a long history of planting. After Columbus discovered the New World, it was introduced to the Philippines by the Spanish and then spread to all parts of the world.
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1, the value of sweet potato:
Rotenone in sweet potato seeds can be used as an insecticide, which is effective in controlling aphids. The edible part of sweet potato is big root, with thin and tough skin, white meat, tender and crisp, sweet and juicy, edible without residue and slightly beany smell. After raw or cooked food, it has the effects of promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, cooling and removing heat.
Sweet potato is rich in nutrition and contains many essential elements such as calcium, iron, zinc, copper and phosphorus. Like sweet potato, sweet potato is also a high-yield crop, with an yield of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of kilograms per mu.
2, the value of sweet potato leaves:
Every 100 grams of fresh sweet potato leaves contains 2.28 grams of protein, 0.2 grams of fat, 4.65438 0 grams of carbohydrate, 65438 0.6 mg of potassium, 2.3 mg of iron, 34 mg of phosphorus, 6.42 mg of carotene and 0.32 mg of vitamin C.
Compared with spinach, celery, Chinese cabbage, rape, leek, cucumber, pumpkin, wax gourd, lettuce, cabbage, eggplant, tomato and carrot, protein, fat, carbohydrate, calorie, fiber, calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene, Vc and VB/kloc-0 are among the four nutrients.
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