Sweet potatoes: long in the ground of the "peach"

Source: Health News

      The fifties and sixties of last century, home farmers every year nearly half of the time to sweet potato as the main grain, every famine year, sweet potato has become a waste of food. Because I eat sweet potatoes in the juvenile meal, so that later on the sweet potato had a rebellious, since the army to leave home after, they never want to eat sweet potatoes. But a few days ago, I was very familiar with the sweet potatoes feel strange and get a new understanding from the strange.

      February 17, Beijing continued drought in more than 100 days after finally a snow, I and four young people took the opportunity to Beijing Yuyuantan Park snow. Half a day down, everyone "hungry and cold", but fortunately at the door of the park encountered a selling roasted sweet potato, which is tantamount to "snow feeding." This is my first time after 39 years to eat sweet potatoes. When I put the warm roasted sweet potatoes in his hand, a long absence of thick and sweet breath into the heart and soul. I can not attend to whether it is elegant, with a few young people, greedy to enjoy, sincerely praise the ... ...

      In the evening, I plan to write a cursory article about the season and health based on the pictures taken. What is it specific? Suddenly remembered who had saved my life, today for my hungry cold sweet potato. In the search for relevant information, I suddenly saw a story that I am amazed - "World Health Organization for the sweet potato" gold medal. " The World Health Organization (WHO), after three years of research and selection, ranked six of the best health foods, including the best vegetables, the best fruit, and the sweet potatoes were listed as the 13 best vegetables. As a "gold" winner, sweet potato has many advantages to human health, choose it to have three points:

      First, sweet potato is rich in carbohydrates, dietary fiber, carotene, vitamins and potassium, magnesium, copper, selenium, calcium and other 10 kinds of elements; which vitamin B1, B2 content were 6 times higher than rice and 3 times; Is rich in lysine, rice and flour and other conventional staple food is the most lacking.

      Second, sweet potato heat is very low, do not have to worry about getting fat after eating, but can play the role of weight loss.

      Third, the sweet potato is a spleen Qi food, can make up the lack of money, spleen and stomach, strong kidney, the spleen and stomach with diarrhea, spleen wet (such as drinking too much), hepatobiliary damp Who have a certain therapeutic effect.

      Another article said that sweet potato because of its role in the prevention of cancer and by the Japanese favor.

      After understanding the health effects of sweet potato, the review of "Compendium of Materia Medica" and the ancient medical book on the effectiveness of sweet potato evaluation, I deeply lamented: sweet potato ah, I should not let you long. As a remedy, today, I am an old "drug" identity, specifically for you to write this article, and sincerely express my praise for you - you are long in the ground, "Shou Tao"!