Eating yam alone can't help you lose weight, but yam can help you lose weight. It contains enough fiber, and people will feel full after eating it, thus controlling their appetite. It is a natural diet food. Secondly, yam itself is a kind of food with high nutrition and low calorie, so you can eat more safely without worrying about getting fat.

First, yam:

Yam, also known as Dioscorea opposita, Dioscorea opposita, Dioscorea opposita and Dioscorea opposita, is a kind of herbal medicine recorded in Chinese Materia Medica, and its medicinal source is the dried rhizome of Dioscorea opposita.

Yam has the effects of nourishing and strengthening, helping digestion, astringing deficient sweating and stopping diarrhea, and is mainly used to treat chronic enteritis such as diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, cough due to lung deficiency, diabetes, short and red urine, nocturnal emission, female leukorrhagia and dyspepsia. Yam is most suitable to be taken with Ganoderma lucidum, which has the function of preventing and treating diabetes. Yam has a great development prospect in food industry and processing industry.

Second, the effect:

Yam, eaten by human beings since ancient times, is one of the earliest plants eaten by human beings. As early as the Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu's poem, there was a famous sentence "Fill the intestines and eat more yam". Yam tuber is thick and juicy, sweet and soft, and sticky. Both raw and hot food are delicious. According to the detection results of Chinese yam by Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, its tuber contains crude protein 14.48%, crude fiber 3.48%, starch 43.7%, sugar 1. 14%, potassium 2.62%, phosphorus 0.2% and calcium 0.1.

Among the 18 amino acids needed by human beings, yam contains 16 amino acids. Chinese yam is tender and contains rich nutrients and health-care substances. Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica says: "Tonifying the middle energizer can make up deficiency, dispel cold and heat, strengthen tendons, and be smart after long service"; ((Rihuazi Materia Medica) says that it "helps the five internal organs, strengthens the bones and muscles, calms the nerves, and relieves the mind";

Compendium of Materia Medica holds that yam can "benefit kidney qi, strengthen spleen and stomach, stop diarrhea, relieve arthralgia and moisten fur". Recent studies have shown that yam can induce interferon and enhance human immune function. Choline and lecithin contained in it help to improve people's memory, and can strengthen the body and delay aging if eaten regularly, so it is a favorite health care product. The bionic food with yam as the main ingredient and konjac as the auxiliary ingredient is a rare healthy and nutritious food with rich nutrition, nourishing body building and beauty beauty.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia yam