What are the benefits of pregnant women eating sweet potatoes?
Pregnant women who eat sweet potatoes can strengthen their fetuses. Sweet potatoes contain much higher lysine than rice and white flour, and are also rich in carotene, which can promote normal maturation of epithelial cells, inhibit abnormal differentiation of epithelial cells, eliminate oxygen free radicals with carcinogenic effects, prevent carcinogens from combining with protein in the nucleus, and promote human immunity. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that sweet potato can tonify the middle energizer, invigorate the blood, warm the stomach and fatten the five internal organs. "The Manual of Sweet Potato" says that it has six medicinal values: treating dysentery and diarrhea; Treat wine accumulation and heat diarrhea; Treat damp-heat and jaundice; Treat nocturnal emission and white turbidity; Treating blood deficiency and menstrual disorder; Treat infantile malnutrition. "Luchuan Materia Medica" says that sweet potato can produce fluid to quench thirst and cure fever and thirst.
How do pregnant women eat sweet potatoes?
First of all, to ensure the quantity, eating potato food (potato, sweet potato, taro) every day should be about 80 grams. Secondly, the combination of meat and vegetables is good. As long as the combination is good, you can enjoy the food and achieve the goal of keeping slim. When eating potatoes, the intake of staple food should be reduced accordingly, which can be controlled according to the ratio of potatoes to staple food of 3 ∶1~ 4 ∶1. If you eat about 80 grams of potato food every day, it may help reduce the risk of stroke.
For many mashed potatoes and French fries in fast food, they are oxidized during processing, which destroys a lot of vitamin C and greatly reduces the nutritional components. For French fries, it is easy to increase the intake of fat, and it is difficult to judge whether the oil of French fries is fresh. In addition, repeated high-temperature heating produces polymers, such as toxic cyclic monomers, which are carcinogens, so eat as little as possible.
However, it is worth noting that potatoes, especially potatoes, contain a toxic substance called alkaloids, which can cause poisoning, nausea, diarrhea and other reactions when ingested in large quantities. This toxic compound is usually concentrated in the potato skin, so it must be peeled when eating, especially when peeling the green skin. In addition, potatoes with buds are more toxic. When eating, you must dig out the buds and roots and soak them in clear water. Stewing and cooking should be on fire.
In addition, if pregnant women often eat potatoes with high alkaloid content, accumulation in the body may lead to fetal malformation. Of course, there are considerable individual differences among people, and not everyone will have abnormalities after eating potatoes. However, it is better for pregnant women not to eat or eat less potatoes, especially potatoes that have been stored and germinated for a long time, which is especially important for women in the early pregnancy.