Dried sweet potatoes can be a nutritious and delicious addition to your diet. The main benefits are that they are high in vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants which can improve overall health. Eating these potatoes can also help maintain healthy blood sugar levels, as well as reduce inflammation.
Dried sweet potatoes are very delicious, not only delicious but also hungry. The method seems simple, but how should it be done in practice?
1. Clean the sweet potato first, remove the outer skin, and then put it on the steamer to steam. It takes about 20 minutes normally, and take it out after steaming.
2. Cut the steamed sweet potatoes into long strips. When cutting the long strips, be sure to cut along the grain.
3. After cutting, find a ventilated place, put the sweet potato strips on top, and cover them with a ventilation umbrella to dry. It takes about two or three days to dry, and this dried sweet potato is ready.
4. After it is done, put the dried sweet potato into a fresh-keeping box and seal it, which can be stored for a long time.
Dried sweet potato is a preserved fruit food made from sweet potato. Because sweet potato itself is a very sweet, dried sweet potato is purely natural. Next, let’s briefly introduce the efficacy and function of dried sweet potatoes.
1. Harmonize the blood
Sweet potatoes are very nutritious, contain a lot of sugar, various vitamins, and minerals, and can be effectively absorbed by the human body. And it can prevent and treat malnutrition, can nourish the middle and replenish qi, and is beneficial to diseases such as spleen and stomach deficiency in the middle burner and malnutrition in children.
2. Wide bowel and laxative
After the sweet potato is cooked, part of the starch changes and the dietary fiber can be increased by about 40% compared with before cooking, which can effectively stimulate the peristalsis of the intestinal tract and promote defecation. When people cut sweet potatoes, there is a white liquid oozing from the skin of sweet potatoes, which contains ginsenoside, which can be used to treat habitual constipation.
3. Enhance immune function
Sweet potatoes contain a lot of mucus protein, which can prevent the liver and kidneys from shrinking, improve the body's immunity, and prevent the occurrence of collagen diseases. Minerals contained in sweet potatoes play a very important role in maintaining and regulating human body functions. The calcium and magnesium contained in it can prevent osteoporosis.
4. Anti-cancer and anti-cancer
Sweet potatoes contain an anti-cancer substance that can prevent colon cancer and breast cancer. In addition, sweet potatoes also have the effect of eliminating active oxygen, which is one of the reasons for inducing cancer, so the effect of sweet potatoes on inhibiting the proliferation of cancer cells is very obvious.
5. Anti-aging and arteriosclerosis
The anti-aging and prevention of arteriosclerosis properties of sweet potatoes are mainly due to the water it contains, which is produced by the action of active oxygen. The mucus protein contained in the sweet potato can maintain the elasticity of the blood vessel wall and prevent the occurrence of atherosclerosis.
Chlorogenic acid in sweet potatoes can inhibit the production of melanin and prevent the appearance of freckles and age spots. Ipomoea batatas can also restrain skin aging, keep skin elasticity, and slow down the aging process of the body.
In addition, there are some caveats.
1. Dried sweet potatoes should not be eaten too much at one time, and should not be eaten on an empty stomach. Dried sweet potatoes contain a kind of oxidase, which is easy to produce a large amount of carbon dioxide gas in the human gastrointestinal tract. For example: Eating too much dried sweet potato at one time will cause abdominal distension, and eating on an empty stomach will stimulate gastric acid secretion.
2. Dried sweet potatoes should not be eaten with persimmons: if eaten at the same time, the sugar in sweet potatoes will ferment in the stomach, which will increase gastric acid secretion. Then it reacts with the tannin and pectin in the persimmon to precipitate and coagulate, which will make the stomach feel uncomfortable.
