Sweet potato stalks are recommended by the nutritional community as a purely natural health vegetables, rich in protein, crude fat and a large amount of crude fiber, to enhance intestinal peristalsis, laxative detoxification, beneficial to the human body weight loss effect. Enhance the immune system, and goji berries together have to protect the eyesight of the role of the eyesight, but also to keep the skin delicate, delay aging.

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Sweet potato seedlings are rich in nutrients, per 100 grams of sweet potato seedlings at the top of the 10-15 centimeters and young leaves, petioles collectively known as stems. Sweet potato stem tip is rich in protein, carotene, vitamins, iron and calcium. According to laboratory analysis: the amount of crude protein in the stem tip is 21.1%-15.1% of the dry weight, comparable to pork and beef.

The protein of stem leaf and stem tip is 2.7%, carotene is 5580 international units/100 grams, vitamin C is 41.07 mg/kg, calcium is 74 mg/kg, iron is 4 mg/kg, vitamin B1 is 3 mg/kg, niacin is 6 to 10 mg/kg, B6 is 2.1 mg/kg.

According to the Chinese Preventive Medical College test, stem tip and celery, kale, spinach, cabbage, rape, leeks, cucumbers, eggplant, carrots, tomatoes and other 13 kinds of vegetables compared to the 14 kinds of nutrients, protein, fat, calories, fiber carbohydrates, calcium, iron, phosphorus, carotene, vitamins C, B1, B2, niacin and other 13, the stems lost are in the first place.

Sweet potato sprouts, also known as sweet potato leaves, groundnut leaves, sweet potato plants for the family Cyclamenaceae, is selected by artificial selection and selected for consumption of sweet potato seedlings at the top of the stem tip of the young stem varieties in Hong Kong is still to the world is known as the "Queen of Vegetables", "longevity vegetables" and "anti-cancer vegetables", the "Queen of vegetables", "longevity vegetables" and "anti-cancer vegetables". "anti-cancer vegetables", is a real green vegetable products.

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