The Health Benefits of the Sweet Potato
March 7, 2009
Everyone is always delighted to see a dish of sweet potatoes appear on the dinner table. There is something about the golden potatoes that makes a person feel cheerful; it’s like looking at big bowl of sunshine.
Preparing the Sweet Potato
Most of us assume that the only way to make sweet potatoes is candied with lots of marshmallows, but that isn’t the only way to make sweet potatoes. If you are looking for a healthier way to make a delicious sweet potato is to wrap it in foil and bake it. When it’s done baking spread a thin layer of butter on the potato and enjoy. Another way to make a delicious, healthy sweet potato is to chop up the potato and boil it. When the chunks of potato are soft drain the water. Add a small amount of vermouth (the average ratio is 2ozs of vermouth per large sweet potato) and use a masher to mash the sweet potato, add a small amount of brown sugar to sweeten the mashed sweet potatoes.
Sweet potatoes are also called yams. There are more than four hundred different varieties of sweet potatoes.
How Eating Sweet Potatoes Improves Your Health
The average serving size of a sweet potato is 100 grams.
Sweet potatoes are full of dietary fiber. Dietary fiber is important to make digestion easier, and to prevent constipation. The dietary fiber combined with the beta carotene in sweet potatoes has also been proven assist in the prevention of the colon and rectal cancer.
Because eating a sweet potato makes you feel full it has been included in several diets programs like the South Beach Diet and the vegetable soup diet. In addition to making you feel full the sweet potato is an awesome comfort food, just eating a sweet potato makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
One serving of sweet potato has 337 milligrams of potassium which your body needs in order to maintain a proper balance of fluids and electrolytes. Potassium also helps relax cramped muscles.
Eating one sweet potato a day is an excellent way to lower your bloods pressure while also ridding your blood of any harmful toxins.
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