How about Sweet Potato?

       Common perennial dicotyledon herb with slender vines and creeping stems. Root tuber, anaerobic respiration produces lactic acid, whitening or reddening skin. In recent years, there are yellow skin varieties. Meat is mostly yellow-white, but also purple, which can be used for human consumption. Its stems and leaves and sweet potatoes can also be used as livestock feed. It can also make sugar and wine, alcohol, starch and starch food. Vine herbs, more than 2 meters long, lying on the ground obliquely. It has underground tuberous roots, tuberous roots spindle-shaped, with yellowish or purple skin. Leaves alternate, broadly ovate, 3-5 palmar cleft. Cymes axillary, bracts small, drill-shaped, sepals oblong, unequal length, corolla bell-shaped, funnel-shaped, white to purple-red. Capsule ovate or oblate seeds 1-4.

Some recipes

1. Roasted sweet potato slice

Raw materials: sweet potatoes, eggs

Practice:

1). Wash the sweet potatoes and wipe them with kitchen paper towels and cut them into thick slices.

2). Drag sweet potato chips onto a thin layer of egg liquid and spread them on a baking tray.

3). Place the baking tray in the microwave oven for 5 minutes.

4). Take out the baking tray and turn each sweet potato over. Put it in the microwave oven and turn it for another 5 minutes.

Sweet potato chips with egg juice not only have the fragrance of eggs, but also a light golden color, which is very attractive.

2. Cheese baked sweet potatoes

Ingredients: 500g sweet potato, 40g butter, 15g sugar (or according to taste), 2 tablespoons light cream (about 25g), 1 egg yolk, and an appropriate amount of cheese (shredded or shredded)

Practice:

1). Choose medium-sized sweet potatoes, wash them and split them in half. 2. Steam them in a steaming pot for about 20 minutes until they are ripe and soft.

2). Use a spoon to dig out the sweet potato pulp. Pay attention to the pulp half a centimeter thick near the pericarp. The remaining sweet potato shells are to be used.

3). Add butter, sugar, light butter and egg yolk into the sweet potato puree and stir evenly.

4). Mix the sweet potato puree into the sweet potato shell and smooth it.

5). Spread the cheese on the sweet potatoes evenly. Bake it in a preheated oven at 200 degrees for 15 minutes or so until the cheese melts and discolors.

3. Common roast sweet potatoes

It's to bake sweet potatoes in a charcoal fire. Until the surface is hard with a layer of black and yellow charcoal, chopsticks can penetrate and emit attractive fragrance, it is OK.

4. Honey burned sweet potato

Ingredients: 200 g sweet potatoes, 50 g ice sugar and a little white sesame.

Practice

1). Wash and peel sweet potatoes and cut into small pieces 1 cm square.

2). Add a little oil in the pan and fry the sweet potatoes slowly until the surface is brown.

3). Add ice sugar and a little water, boil until the ice sugar melts, wait for the sugar to be colored, and let the sugar juice evenly wrap around the sweet potatoes, turn off the fire and sprinkle with sesame.

Sweet potatoes must be browned on every side, or they will be fragile!

5. Sweet potato gruel

1). Wash the sweet potatoes with clean water and cut them into small pieces.

2). Add an appropriate amount of water to the pot. Heat the pot over a big fire until the water boils. Add sweet potato cubes, then add rice, millet, or corn paste when the sweet potatoes are ripe. Put them into the paste according to your taste.

3). Finally, when the water boils again, turn to a small fire and cook slowly for 20 minutes, you can eat sweet and delicious sweet potato porridge.

Benefits

1. Anticancer efficacy

Sweet potatoes topped the list of 20 anti-cancer vegetables recently released by Japan's National Cancer Research Center. Japanese doctors found that the cancer inhibition rate of cooked sweet potatoes (98.7%) was slightly higher than that of raw sweet potatoes (94.4%). Philadelphia Hospital in the United States has also extracted an active substance from sweet potatoes, androsterone, which can effectively inhibit the occurrence of colon cancer and breast cancer. Professor Ser Schwartz, an American biologist, isolated an active substance called DHEA from sweet potatoes. He injected the substance into mice fed on a run to develop cancer and found that the mice had a 1/3 longer life span than the normal mice. A university study in the United States found that sweet potatoes contain a substance called dehydroepiandrosterone, which also has a certain effect on cancer prevention and treatment.

2. Weight reduction effect

Sweet potatoes are rich in starch, vitamins, cellulose and other essential nutrients for the human body. They are also rich in mineral elements such as magnesium, phosphorus, calcium and linoleic acid. These substances can maintain the elasticity of blood vessels and are very effective in the prevention and treatment of habitual constipation in the elderly. Unfortunately, most people think that eating sweet potatoes will make people fat and afraid to eat. In fact, on the contrary, sweet potato is an ideal weight-loss food, its calorie is only 1/3 of that of rice, and because it is rich in cellulose and pectin, it has a special function of preventing sugar from converting into fat.

3. Disease elimination efficacy

Sweet potato is not an onlya portion of healthy food, but also a good medicine for the disease. Sweet potatoes can nourish the blood, warm the stomach and fertilize the five internal organs. Jinshu Biography says that it has six medicinal values: curing dysentery and diarrhea; curing alcoholism and heat diarrhea; curing dampness and heat and jaundice; curing spermatorrhea and turbidity; curing blood deficiency and menstrual disorders; curing infantile jaundice. "Luchuan Materia Medica," said that sweet potatoes can quench thirst and cure fever and thirst.

Sweet potato contains a lot of cellulose and pectin which are not easily destroyed by digestive enzymes. It can stimulate the secretion of digestive juice and gastrointestinal peristalsis, thus playing a role in defecation. In addition, its rich content of beta-carotene is an effective antioxidant, which helps to eliminate free radicals in vivo.

4. Nutritive value

Sweet potato contains a variety of cellulose and pectin which are not easily destroyed by digestive enzymes. It can effectively stimulate the secretion of digestive juice and gastrointestinal peristalsis, and make stool smooth. It also contains rich nutrients such as sugar, vitamins and minerals. Sweet potatoes contain only 0.2 grams of fat per 100 grams, which is 1/4 of rice. Therefore, they are among the best in high nutrition, low calorie and low fat foods.

Matters needing attention

1. Don't eat empty stomach as much as possible.

2. It's better not to eat more than three or two sweet potatoes a day.

3. Don't eat sweet potatoes with foods that are too sweet.

4. Diarrhea patients and diabetics should not eat sweet potatoes.