Than sweet potato is useful

In spite of the fact that sweet potato is called sweet potatoes, it is similar to potatoes only the tubers growing underground. Tubers of sweet potato represent reinforced roots and during maturing accumulate in themselves a lot of starch and sugars. The homeland of sweet potato is South America where it is widely used as food culture. Sweet potato has a number of useful properties, but not all people are recommended to eat this fruit. In this article the nutrition value and advantage of sweet potatoes, the recommendation to the use of this culture and its possible harm for health will be considered.

Caloric content and chemical composition

Despite the high content of sugars, sweet potatoes it is considered a dietary product thanks to a large amount of vitamins, macrocells and low caloric content.

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In the following table the amount of each nutrient on 100 g of a product and standard daily rates of nutrients for the adult moves.

Whether you know? If to trust calculations of geneticists, then the first tubers of sweet potato appeared on our planet more than five thousand years ago. Peru from where it extended across all South America, Polynesia and even New Zealand during a pre-Columbian era is considered the homeland of this root crop. How exactly tubers of sweet potatoes overcame the ocean many thousands years ago — still remains a riddle. For certain the fact that sweet potatoes got to Europe together with colonialists through Portugal at the beginning of the 1500th years is known. Sweet unusual vegetable of saturated orange color was to the taste to the European seamen.

Than sweet potato is useful

General advantage

Sweet potatoes will become the good decision for those who are not capable to digest cellulose of such vegetables as carrots, cabbage, beet. Cellulose of this root crop is acquired easier, and the quantity in sweet potato is less than it, than in usual potatoes, especially in dessert and table grades.

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1. Sweet potato has the low glycemic index, despite the high content of sugars. Thanks to it people can eat it with an excess weight and to the persons suffering from diabetes.
2. Vitamins A, B1 and B2 well influence a tone of walls of vessels, and abundance of cellulose saves from bad cholesterol, preventing appearance of atherosclerosis. Vitamin C which best of all remains in crude fruits helps to reduce arterial blood pressure at a hypertension.
3. The iron which is contained in a root crop stimulates the haematogenic function, accelerates metabolism and promotes elimination of hypostases.

Important! Upon purchase choose smooth equal tubers with slightly pinkish thin skin without sluggish sites, spots or traces of a mold. The tuber by the size, the nasyshchenny more with pleasure at it taste is less. There are fodder sweet potatoes, its tubers have a light color and the big sizes. After preparation they become dry, friable and on tastes concede to usual potatoes.

For women

Women will receive special advantage as it contains specific substances from this fruit.

1. This fruit is useful to women availability of phytoestrogen — vegetable analogs of female sex hormones. Phytoestrogen is responsible for normal functioning of a reproductive system and supports a female body in the period of a climax.
2. Sweet potato solves a problem of excess weight and is often used in female diets. This fruit is rich with cellulose which gives fast feeling of saturation and saves from overeating.
3. The vitamin C which is contained in sweet potatoes stimulates collagen synthesis that positively affects beauty of women's skin. The same vitamin is powerful antioxidant. He protects organism cages from free radicals, so, slows down aging and prevents development of new growths. Vitamin A which is called still youth vitamin promotes fast regeneration of skin and eliminates small wrinkles.

Important! Gipervitaminoz And arises at excess consumption of sweet potatoes. It differs in peeling of integuments, nausea, the general weakness and consolidations of soft fabrics, especially on extremities. Observe a measure — do not eat more than 400 g of sweet potato a day.

For men

Men should eat sweet potatoes carefully as the surplus in this product of phytoestrogen can weaken men's sexual function.

1. Sweet potato will help to be restored after a stress — the potassium which is contained in this root crop supports a cardiovascular system and lightens the mood.
2. Sweet potatoes are considered a high-carbohydrate product therefore athletes need to use it, to people who transfer intensive physical activities and that who is engaged in brainwork.

Comparing potatoes and sweet potato, it is possible to notice that potatoes contain more potassium, useful to a cardiovascular system while in sweet potato the amount of sugars at the low insulin index are much higher.

At similar nutrition value sweet potato exceeds potatoes on vitamin A content, With and celluloses therefore for dietary food it is recommended to use it.

Whether it is possible to eat

There are various food contraindications to the use of products. Also sweet potatoes have some contraindications.

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At pregnancy and breastfeeding

If the woman did not eat sweet potato dishes earlier, then during pregnancy it is not necessary to include them in a diet. Sweet potatoes can provoke allergic reaction at the pregnant woman or the baby during breastfeeding. Also this fruit contains a large amount of cellulose which stimulates a vermicular movement of intestines and leads to the increased gas generation that can be inconveniently for the pregnant woman.

At weight loss

Sweet potatoes have low caloric content — only 60 kcal / 100 therefore the whole diets on its basis are created. It helps to be sated without overeating and in addition stimulates metabolism processes.

People who want to lose weight should include in the menu, such products as: eggs, boiled corn, apples, greyfrukt.

At diabetes

The glycemic index at sweet potato same as at potatoes, and insulin is much lower. After consumption of sweet potato of insulin in a blood-groove it is allocated a little therefore this product to the person with diabetes will not do much harm. It is at one time recommended to eat no more than 250 g of sweet potatoes.

At pancreatitis and gastritis

At pancreatitis it is necessary to control strictly receipt in a cellulose organism. In day it is possible to use it no more than thirty grams. Sweet potatoes — a rich source of cellulose therefore people with pancreatitis are not recommended to eat it.

Food fibers of this product can irritate a mucous membrane of intestines therefore at gastritis this product cannot be used too.

At locks

Cellulose has property to stimulate a vermicular movement of intestines and to clean it therefore sweet potato will become remedy at the arisen locks, and at normal functioning of a digestive tract will help to prevent emergence of problems with intestines.

Whether you know? Sweet potato is considered one of the most popular root crops on the planet. In 2013 the food organization UN counted that for last registration year more than 100 million tons of this fruit from 8 million hectares of the earth were collected, at the same time the share of China in the general harvest made more than 70 million tons!

Contraindications and harm for health

Despite the improving properties, this root crop it will be useful not to all.

1. To pregnant women and those who suffers from stomach ulcers sweet potatoes are contraindicated — it irritates mucous membranes of a stomach, excessively stimulates an intestines vermicular movement.
2. This product is contraindicated to people, sensitive to allergens, as its use provokes emergence of symptoms of food allergy.
3. People with cholelithiasis and problem kidneys are not recommended to eat sweet potato — it stimulates formation of stones in kidneys.
4. The excess of vitamin A in this fruit badly affects a liver therefore with gepatozy and cirrhosis sweet potato is also contraindicated to people.

Whether you know? The first written mentions of sweet potato are dated 1547. The Spanish historian Bernardino de Saagoun who went as the missionary to Mexico deeply studied customs of locals and noticed that they cultivate, and then eat root crops under the name kamotl — one of dessert grades of sweet potato known nowadays.

Sweet potato is a useful root crop which in the Slavic countries appeared relatively recently. It is eaten in a crude and ready look, after preparation keeps the majority of the useful properties.

Sweet potato has some contraindications to the use which are connected generally with individual intolerance or presence of certain diseases. The use of this root crop in reasonable quantities will bring to your organism only benefit.