Sweet potato porridge with cornmeal: Sweet potatoes and corn both have laxative, skin-beautifying and anti-cancer properties. Sweet potato cornmeal porridge is delicious and low-cost, and it is a diet that is generally popular among the public.

Materials: 1 sweet potato, cornmeal half a bowl

Practice:

1, raw sweet potato peeled and cut into hobnail pieces, add water not more than the sweet potato pieces, first boil for 10 minutes.

2, small half bowl of cornmeal with water to stir into a paste.

3. When the sweet potatoes are soft, slowly pour the cornmeal mixture into the pot, stirring as it cooks, and then boil the pot for another 5 minutes.

Nutritional value:

Groundnut porridge health care role, especially for the elderly health is very beneficial. As sweet potato is alkaline food, it is conducive to maintaining the acid-base balance of the blood. Sweet potato contains a large number of mucus protein, mucus polysaccharide, they can maintain the elasticity of the human cardiovascular wall, to prevent the occurrence of atherosclerosis, but also to maintain the respiratory tract, the digestive tract, the lubrication of the joint cavity. In addition, sweet potatoes contain starch cellulose in the intestinal tract can adsorb a lot of water, is conducive to the prevention and treatment of constipation, reduce the occurrence of intestinal cancer.

The high content of dietary fiber in sweet potato has the effect of promoting gastrointestinal peristalsis, preventing constipation and colorectal cancer. Sweet potatoes are good for the heart. Sweet potatoes are rich in potassium, tail-carotene, folic acid, vitamin C and vitamin B6, all five components help prevent cardiovascular disease. Potassium contributes to the fluid and electrolyte balance of body cells and maintains normal blood pressure and heart function; tail-carotene and vitamin C have an anti-lipid oxidation and atherosclerosis-preventing effect; supplemental folic acid and vitamin B6 help to reduce the level of homocysteine in the blood, which can damage arterial vessels and is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Sweet potato also contains a substance similar to estrogen, to protect human skin, delay aging has a certain role.