Sweet potatoes were heard by everyone. Every schoolboy knows that sweet potato is the main food crop in many tropical countries of the world. He knows that his tubers taste like slightly frozen potatoes. Well, a little - for beets. But sweet potato is a vegetable southerly. So southern that even in the very south of Russia it can not be cultivated - it is too demanding for high temperatures and humidity.
For digestion.
Potato sweet potato is a rich source of carbohydrates, easily absorbed and energetically valuable. The benefit of sweet potato is that its carbohydrates are much more easily absorbed by the body than potato starch, and they have a very low glycemic index. That is, diabetics yam with its beneficial properties are prescribed by nature itself.
In addition, sweet potato, like any other vegetable - is a large amount of fiber. What is useful for fiber? It is she who makes the intestines and stomach move, improving peristalsis, digestion and absorption of food. So, and useful substances when consuming sweet potato is absorbed more, and the digestive tract is massaged and trained very intensively.
And the combination of B group vitamins with ascorbic acid and many minerals gives sweet potato many healing properties. And this allows you to have a mild calming effect on the intestines, preventing the development of ulcers and various disorders.
Useful properties of sweet potato for the heart.
The same fiber that causes the muscles and the intestinal epithelium to work, prevents the absorption of a large amount of cholesterol and its predecessors into the blood. As a result, potato yam is also useful because when it is used, the level of cholesterol and lipoproteins of different density in the blood decreases, and then - the walls of arteries are cleared and their lumen enlarges. Therefore, an important property of root crop is the prevention of heart diseases: atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease and various vascular diseases.
Moreover, vitamin C and some metals in the chemical composition of sweet potato - calcium, for example, and magnesium - help maintain the elasticity of the arteries, while maintaining the body's ability to maintain normal blood flow. But the properties of magnesium and iron, which contain a lot of the vegetable, are necessary for the production of a large number of uniform elements of blood, helping with anemia.
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