The rice cooker should be a household appliance that exists in every household. The main function of the rice cooker in daily life is to help people cook, which can effectively save cooking time. With the development of modern social science and technology, people have also found that rice cookers can make different kinds of food. For example, people who like to eat cakes can use rice cookers to make cakes, but can rice cookers bake sweet potatoes?

Ordinary rice cookers can bake sweet potatoes. Although they are not as delicious as those baked in plant ash, they are healthier and cheaper than those baked with carbon outside, and the method is relatively simple, which is a great boon for people who love baked sweet potatoes. First, wash the sweet potatoes without peeling them. Punch a few small holes in each sweet potato with a toothpick, and put the sweet potatoes into the rice cooker. No water is needed, and not a drop of water is put. In order to make the sweet potatoes have a burnt smell at the bottom, they must be stacked in a single layer, so as not to overlap. The smart rice cooker mode will start the clay pot rice function. This function has high primer and long working time, and it can be cooked in about one hour. After jumping to the heat preservation, insert it with chopsticks to see if it can be easily inserted. If there is a hard core, extend the time.

efficacy and function of sweet potato

1. Sweet potato is good for the heart

Sweet potato is rich in potassium, beta-carotene, folic acid, vitamin C and vitamin B6, all of which are helpful to prevent cardiovascular diseases. Potassium contributes to the balance of liquid and electrolyte in human cells, and maintains normal blood pressure and heart function. β -carotene and vitamin C have the effects of anti-lipid oxidation and prevention of atherosclerosis. Supplementation of folic acid and vitamin B6 is helpful to reduce the level of homocysteine in blood, which can damage arterial blood vessels and is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease.

Sweet potato helps to prevent cardiovascular diseases

Sweet potato has been regarded by nutritionists as a balanced food with both medicine and food. Its calorie is only one third of that of rice with the same weight, and it contains almost no fat and cholesterol. Eating sweet potatoes often is beneficial to human health and has a certain weight loss effect. But don't eat too much sweet potato at a time to avoid abdominal discomfort such as heartburn, acid reflux or bloating.

2. prevention of emphysema with sweet potato

excessive smoking may lead to symptoms of emphysema, so friends with emphysema can eat more sweet potatoes to relieve it. Sweet potatoes are rich in vitamin A, and eating more sweet potatoes can effectively reduce the incidence of emphysema.

3. Sweet potato has anti-cancer effect

It helps to resist the damage of oxidative stress to genetic material deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and has certain anti-cancer effect

The nutrients with anti-cancer effect in the diet are β -carotene (precursor of vitamin A), vitamin C and folic acid, and the contents of all three are relatively rich in sweet potato. A small sweet potato (about 2-fold) can provide twice the daily vitamin A, one third of the daily vitamin C and about 5 micrograms of folic acid. The content of dietary fiber is higher than that of a bowl of oatmeal. The antioxidant effects of β -carotene and vitamin C are helpful to resist the damage of oxidative stress to genetic material deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and play a certain anti-cancer role.