First, everything has energy. If you eat too much energy food and exceed the energy intake standard, whatever you eat will lead to weight gain. This is why some people think coarse grains, sweet potatoes and white flour are healthier than rice, so they eat a lot and finally find themselves fatter than before. Back to sweet potato, this is actually the problem. For sweet potatoes, this is indeed a relatively healthy food, but as long as you eat too much, it will also lead to weight gain. There is no doubt about it. In fact, besides eating too much, there is another problem that people may not pay much attention to, but it will also lead to obesity, and that is the cooking method of sweet potatoes. In fact, the key problem affecting the health of sweet potatoes is your cooking style. Dr. zhang found that different cooking methods may make sweet potatoes burst into energy.
It must be said that the ability of a food to raise blood sugar can be evaluated by an index, that is, the glycemic index. However, some literature shows that the same sweet potato, different cooking methods, the glycemic index will be completely different. For example, the glycemic index of raw sweet potato is 54, cooked sweet potato is 76, and baked sweet potato is 87. If fried sweet potato is made, the glycemic index will be higher, which is directly close to that of fried food. However, if the glycemic index of a food is below 55, it can be said that it is healthier and less likely to accumulate fat, while if the glycemic index exceeds 70, it is more likely to accumulate fat. Therefore, everyone should pay attention to the healthy cooking of sweet potatoes, such as eating steamed sweet potatoes, eating less baked sweet potatoes and avoiding fried sweet potatoes as much as possible!
There is dietary fiber in sweet potato, which can increase satiety, increase intestinal peristalsis and prevent constipation. Sweet potato can be processed with rice and flour into "miscellaneous grains rice and miscellaneous grains steamed bread", which can slow down the rise of blood sugar and is beneficial to health.