Everyone knows that sweet potatoes are a very healthy food. In fact, sweet potato leaves are also a nutritious and good ingredient, which combines the nutrition of sweet potatoes and vegetables, and is known as "top ginseng".
Sweet potato leaves have also been listed as high-nutrient vegetable varieties by the Asian Vegetable Research Center, and are also known as "longevity vegetables", which are well-deserved good vegetable medicines! Beijing Satellite TV Health Hall program once went to Chengmai, Hainan, the "World Longevity Village" to visit the mystery of longevity, and found five kinds of treasures on the dining table of local centenarians, one of which is sweet potato leaves.
2 handfuls a week, and a good point is seen
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is flat and sweet, and has the effects of tonifying the spleen and invigorating qi, widening the intestines and laxative, and quenching thirst. The "Compendium of Materia Medica" also mentions that sweet potato leaves are slightly cool, sweet and astringent, invigorating qi and spleen, and facilitating urination, which is suitable for people with constipation.
From a nutritional point of view, it contains mucus protein, which can clear blood vessels, maintain the heart, and is also beneficial to the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular vessels. Rich in dietary fiber, vitamin C, potassium and low calorie, sweet potato leaves also make sweet potato leaves suitable for obese and high-weight people, which is very helpful for daily blood pressure, blood sugar and blood lipids.
1. Bright eyes and eye protection
Carotene not only helps to fight free radicals, is good for protecting blood vessels and preventing diabetes, but also helps to protect mucous membranes and eyes, and is good for relieving night blindness, dry eyes, retinal macular degeneration, etc.
The carotene content in sweet potato leaves is the first among vegetables, higher than carrots, and 11 times that of Chinese cabbage! Eating more is very helpful to protect eyesight and relieve eye fatigue.
2. Improve immunity
Sweet potato leaves are rich in flavonoids and polyphenols, which can capture the "killers" of oxygen free radicals in the human body, and have a variety of health care effects such as improving the body's disease resistance, antioxidation, delaying aging, and assisting in anti-inflammatory and cancer prevention.
3. Assist in sugar control
Sweet potato leaves are relatively high in vitamin C and dietary fiber, especially vitamin C, ranking seventh among vegetables. It is also rich in potassium, which is very helpful for controlling blood sugar, blood pressure, and blood lipids.
In addition, sweet potatoes also contain more chlorophyll, which can clean up the garbage in the blood vessels and maintain the patency of blood vessels. It is also high in mucin, which helps boost metabolism and protect the elasticity of blood vessels. Vitamin C also helps to repair damaged cells, protect blood vessels, and fight aging.
4. Calcium supplementation to prevent anemia
Sweet potato leaves are also rich in calcium, as high as 180mg/100g, even more than milk, which can be used as a good choice for calcium supplementation in green leafy vegetables.
Moreover, a daily intake of 300g of sweet potato leaves can supplement the iron and vitamins A, C and E required by the human body for a day, which is more friendly to people with anemia.
5. Laxative
Sweet potato leaves are rich in dietary fiber, with a content of 2.8 g/100g, which is as strong as spring bamboo shoots, which are "laxative experts". It helps to promote intestinal peristalsis, aid digestion, and help prevent constipation and hemorrhoids.
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Garlic sweet potato leaves
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Ingredients: sweet potato leaves, garlic, dried chilies
Method:
1. Wash the sweet potato leaves with water, drain the water, separate the leaves from the leaf stalks like stir-frying water spinach, and cut the leaf stalks into small pieces for later use. Finely chop the garlic, chop the dried chili peppers and chop the chives.
2. After the pot is hot, pour oil, then pour in minced garlic, green onions, dried chilies, and stir-fry the seasoning over low heat until fragrant.
3. Then pour in the sweet potato leaf stems, stir-fry quickly over high heat for 1~2 minutes, pour in the leaves after the leaf stems become soft, continue to stir-fry for about 1 minute, and after the frying is broken, add an appropriate amount of salt and stir-fry.
2. 3 types of people eat less
People with abnormal gastrointestinal function: Since sweet potato leaves themselves have the effect of promoting bowel movements, if the digestion and absorption of the stomach and intestines are not good, eating sweet potato leaves will aggravate the discomfort of the stomach.
People with renal insufficiency: Sweet potato leaves contain a lot of potassium, potassium needs to be metabolized by the kidneys after entering the bloodstream, if you eat too much, it will increase the burden on the kidneys, and for people with renal insufficiency, it may aggravate the condition.
People with cold constitution: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that sweet potato leaves are cold ingredients, and for this kind of people, it is necessary to control the amount to avoid greater diseases.
If you are diabetic, you can eat sweet potato leaves, and it will also help the condition to a certain extent, and it is delicious to eat it when you make stuffing, stir-fry it directly, and put it on when making some soup.
Source: Health and Wellness