Can you lose weight by eating steamed sweet potatoes for dinner? This is an interesting question. I guess there are overweight people who have heard that sweet potatoes are very healthy, so they want to lose weight by eating only sweet potatoes. So, is this really reliable? Does it work or not? This question will be explained to you today.

First of all, everything has energy. If you eat too much food that has energy and exceeds the energy intake standard, eating anything will lead to weight gain. This is why some people think that roughage, sweet potatoes, and potatoes are healthier than rice and white flour, so they eat a lot of them, and eventually find themselves fatter than before. Going back to sweet potatoes, this is actually the problem. In the case of sweet potatoes, this is indeed a relatively healthy food, but whenever you eat too much of it, it can also lead to weight gain. There is no doubt about that. In fact, in addition to eating too much, there is another issue that people may not pay much attention to, but it can also lead to obesity, and that is the way sweet potatoes are cooked. In fact, the key issue that affects the health of sweet potatoes is your cooking style. Dr. Zhang reviewed the literature and found that different cooking methods may explode the energy of sweet potatoes.

It has to be said that a food's ability to raise blood sugar can be evaluated by one metric, yes, the glycemic index. However, it has been shown in the literature that the same sweet potato can have a completely different glycemic index with different cooking methods. For example, raw sweet potatoes have a glycemic index of 54, cooked sweet potatoes have a glycemic index of 76, and baked sweet potatoes have a glycemic index of 87. If you make fried sweet potatoes, the glycemic index will be even higher, directly approaching the high glycemic index of fried foods. However, if the glycemic index of a food is lower than 55, it can be said to be healthier and less likely to accumulate fat, while a glycemic index of more than 70 is more likely to accumulate fat. So people 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!

Sweet potatoes have dietary fiber, which can increase satiety, increase intestinal peristalsis, and prevent constipation. Sweet potatoes can be processed with rice, noodles, made of "mixed grain rice, mixed grain buns", can slow down the rate of rise of blood glucose, are beneficial to health.