Sweet potato leaves (also called sweet potato leaves), the leaves and stalks can be used, but the old stalks that are particularly thick and hard are not edible. Sweet potato leaves are usually sautéed and steamed, but they are rarely used cold.

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Sweet potato leaf function introduction:

Sweet potato leaf has to improve immunity, stop bleeding, lower sugar, detoxification, prevention and treatment of night blindness and other health functions. Sweet potato leaves can make the skin smooth, regular consumption has the effect of preventing constipation, protecting eyesight, but also can keep the skin delicate, delay aging. In Europe and the United States, Japan, Hong Kong and other places set off a wave of "sweet potato leaf fever". Sweet potato is a health food for longevity, while sweet potato leaves are discarded or used as feed. After research found that the sweet potato leaf protein, vitamins, mineral elements content is very high. Protein content of 2.74%, carotene 5580 international units / 100 grams, vitamin B2 for 3.5 mg / kg, vitamin C for 41.07 mg / kg, iron 3.94 mg / kg, calcium 74.4 mg / kg. Potato leaves and spinach, celery, cabbage, rape, leeks, cucumber, pumpkin, winter squash, lettuce, kale, eggplant, tomatoes, carrots, compared to 14 kinds of nutrients, protein, fat, carbohydrates, calories, fiber, calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene, Vc, VB1, VB2 nicotinic acid and other 13 potato leaves are in the first place. Sweet potato leaves have enhanced immune function, improve the body's ability to resist disease, promote metabolism, delay aging, lowering blood sugar, laxative diuretic, ascending platelets, hemostasis, prevention of atherosclerosis, preventing cellular carcinoma, lactation detoxification, vision protection, prevention of night blindness, a good health function.