1, the introduction of sweet potatoes
Sweet potatoes, also known as sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, etc., for the family of annual plants. People in different regions call it differently, Henan people call it sweet potato, Shanghai people and Tianjin people call it yam, Shandong people call it groundnut, southern Jiangsu people call it yam other regions call it sweet potato and Xuzhou region call it white taro, Shaanxi people call it red taro, Sichuan people and Guizhou people call it red potatoes, Beijing people call it white potatoes, Jiangxi people call it sweet potatoes, Fujian people call it sweet potatoes Hebei people call yam or Red yam. Different areas of the same region people on its name is not the same, such as most of Shandong, although it is called groundnut, but the south of Zaozhuang, Jining, near the locals and used to call it "taro", while the real taro is called "gross taro".
1. Alias: taro, red taro, sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes, white potatoes, white taro, sweet potatoes, red potatoes
2. Contraindications: dampness obstruction of the spleen and stomach, stagnation of qi and food accumulation should be cautious of eating.
3. Suitable for people: the general population can eat. Suitable for diabetic patients.
4. Sweet potato calorie table (per 100 grams)
Calories (calories) 119
Calcium (mg) 23
Phosphorus (mg) 121
Potassium (mg) 97
Sodium (mg) 2.4
Iron (mg) 1.1
Zinc (mg) 1.45
Selenium (micrograms) 2.5
Copper (milligrams) 0.19
Manganese (milligrams) 1.36
2, sweet potatoes effect and function
1. anti-cancer
Effectively inhibit the occurrence of colon cancer and breast cancer.
2. Laxative and weight loss
Eating sweet potatoes can effectively prevent sugar from turning into fat, which is conducive to weight loss and bodybuilding. Sweet potato contains a lot of dietary fiber, in the intestinal tract can not be digested and absorbed, can stimulate the intestinal tract, enhance peristalsis, laxative detoxification, especially for senile constipation has a better therapeutic effect.
3. Improve immunity
Sweet potato leaves have health functions such as improving immunity, stopping bleeding, lowering sugar, detoxification, and preventing night blindness.
4. Anti-aging
Inhibit the production of melanin, prevent freckles and age spots. Red also inhibits skin aging, maintains skin elasticity, and slows down the aging process of the organism.
3, the nutritional value of sweet potatoes
1. Sweet potatoes contain dietary fiber, carotene, vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin C, vitamin E, and potassium, iron, copper, selenium, calcium, and so on, more than 10 kinds of trace elements. Nutritional value is very high, by nutritionists called the most balanced nutritional health food.
2. Inside the beta-carotene, vitamin E and vitamin C especially. Especially sweet potato is rich in lysine, and rice, flour precisely lack of lysine. Sweet potatoes mixed with rice and flour can get a more comprehensive protein supplement. In terms of overall nutrition, sweet potatoes can be said to be the best of grains and vegetables. Europeans and Americans praise it as the "second bread", Soviet scientists say it is the future of the "cosmonautics food", the French say it is deservedly "high-level health food".
3. Every 100 grams of fresh sweet potatoes contain only 0.2 grams of fat, producing 99 kilocalories, about 1/3 of the rice, is a very good low-fat, low-calorie food.
4. Sweet potatoes contain a substance similar to estrogen, to protect human skin, delay aging has a certain role.
4, sweet potato purchase
1. Priority selection of spindle-shaped sweet potato.
2. The surface looks smooth, rotten sweet potato poisonous do not pick.
3. Smell no moldy smell, moldy sweet potatoes contain ketones toxin, do not eat.
4. Don't buy red with black or brown spots on the skin.
5. Sprouted sweet potatoes are not as toxic as potatoes, but they taste worse.
5, sweet potato storage
1. should not be put together with potatoes, the two taboo. Either the sweet potato hard heart, or potato sprouting.
2. Keep dry, should not be placed in a plastic bag.
6, sweet potato consumption
Sweet potato, although good, but contains starch grain is larger, not by high temperature destruction difficult to digest, and its gasification enzyme, easy to stimulate gastric secretion, carbon dioxide, will cause bloating hiccups, spit acid water. Can be cut into cubes of sweet potatoes in salt water soaked l0 minutes, and then steamed on it. Therefore, sweet potatoes must be steamed and boiled before eating.
7, sweet potatoes can not be eaten with
Compatibility
Sweet potatoes + chicken: with food will be abdominal pain
Sweet potatoes + tomatoes: eaten together with the stone disease, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea
Sweet potatoes + persimmons: abdominal bloating
Sweet potato + banana: eating together will cause discomfort
Sweet potato + egg: eating together will be abdominal pain
Sweet potato + chicken wings: eating together will be abdominal pain
Sweet potato + sea crabs: knot
Sweet potato + woodchuck: eating together will be abdominal pain
Sweet potato + chicken breast: eating together will be abdominal pain
Sweet potato + crab: easy to coagulate persimmonite in the body
Sweet potato + river crab: stones
suitable
Sweet potato + lotus seed: suitable for habitual constipation and chronic hepatitis patients
Sweet potato + pork chops: to increase the absorption of nutrients
Sweet potato + celery: lowering blood pressure
Sweet potato + brown rice: weight loss
Sweet potato + brown rice: weight loss
8, sweet potato steamed meat
Materials:
400 grams of pork, 100 grams of sweet potatoes, 150 grams of steamed meat powder, ginger 5 grams.
Practice:
1. Prepare ingredients. 400 grams of pork, 100 grams of sweet potatoes, 150 grams of steamed meat powder, 5 grams of ginger. (Steamed meat powder can be bought in supermarkets, very common)
2. Flower meat cut into large slices about half a centimeter thick.
3. good pork into a large bowl, in turn, put 1 spoon salt, 1 spoon chicken essence, 1 spoon dark soy sauce, 2 spoons of soy sauce, 1 spoon sugar, 1 spoon cooking wine, a few slices of ginger scratched, and then marinate for 15 minutes to let it taste.
4. Cut into cubes and set aside.
5. Put the sliced meat into the steamed meat powder, and let the surface of the sliced meat evenly stick to the steamed meat powder.
6. Put the sliced meat into the bowl with the steamed meat powder.
7. When the meat is ready, put the sweet potatoes in the bowl. (The sweet potato surface should also stick a layer of steamed meat powder to taste)
8. Into the steamer (the plate is still left some steamed meat powder, I am sprinkled in the sweet potato, to avoid waste), high heat boiling and then turn to medium heat steaming 1 ? to 2 hours.
9. of steamed pork inverted to the plate, and then remove the bowl.
10. Sprinkle a little chopped scallions can be.