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The Nutritional Value of Sweet Potato
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The value of sweet potato is famed. According to Professor Dong DaCheng’s research and experiment dietary fiber abounds in sweet potato. This dietary fiber is regarded as an important composition recently. It helps stomach and intestine to wriggle to help digestion. It is good both for the old and the young.
Sweet potato abounds many nutrients which our body needs. In order to make use of its nutritive value in full, we can cook it by many ways such as steaming, boiling, roasting or frying to make various delicious foods. |
Sweet potato abounds rich dietary fiber. Fried potato is delicacies too.
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The advantages of sweet potato is also listed in the book of Min Xiao Ji. For examples, sweet potato can be made into wine for sacrificial rites and banquets and as such it contributes to educate rites and convention; it can also be swallowed by the elderly so it is good for providing it to the aged; children will stop crying if fed with sweet potatoes so it can also help to take care of children. These advantages seem a bit special, but we can see how sweet potato is regarded by people at that time from the above examples!
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Sweet potato belongs to root-tuber plant. People have potato’s stem as food but they have sweet potato’s root as food.
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Sweet potato is one kind of root tubers. It is almost oval-shaped. Its body is plump and its top and bottom are sharper. “Root tuber” is used extensively, as a provision for human. It is also used as a feeding stuff for livestock. Its bud and spear are used as vegetables which abound with vitamin C, vitamin E, vitamin B, carotene, cellulose, potassium and iron which can prevent cancer.
Some people lump potato and sweet potato together. However, they are not only different in shape, but also provide different food values. Their nutrients are mostly starch. Usually,people have potato’s stem as food but they have sweet potato’s root as food.
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Sweet potato was the main provision of the poor but now it’s rich people’s snack. What is the magic that it doted on the rich? The superior Su Hsiu-Yueh of the Department of Nutrition of the Taipei Medical University Hospital has ever stated that sweet potato has the characteristic of high-fiber and low calorie. Although it is sort of starch food, compare with rice, its fiber content is 10 times more to rice. The carotene, the elements of vitamin A is an anti-oxidant that can prevent cancer. Also the composition of the potassium can help steady the blood pressure. |
Scientific research proved sweet potato abounds with various nutrition for human.
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Sweet potato is being substituted for rice for many toxin-elimination meals.
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In addition, sweet potato is being substituted for rice for many toxin-elimination meals. Sweet potato helps stomach and intestine defecating to eliminate toxins in our body. Because of its rich fiber, we can have the same satisfaction by eating a sweet potato as to a bowl of rice. If we have sweet potato as our meals instead of having rice, after long, we can reduce our body weight. |
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Sweet potato expert, Mr. Lee Lian, Dr. Dong DaCheng of National Taiwan university hospital and the Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center…..etc. researching units state that sweet potato is physiology -basic food which can neutralize acidity food which comes from eating meat and fish in our daily feast as such it benefits health. With the compositions, such as dietary fiber and so on…, provide quite affects for constipation, diabetes, cholesterol and dyspepsia that modern people usually have. |
Sweet potato can neutralize acidity food which comes from eating meat and fish in our daily feast
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Compositions of Recent Year New Improved Variety of Sweet Potato
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