What is sweet potato?

Sweet potato (scientific name: sweet potato? Lin. ) Also known as Ganchu, Sweet Potato, Bamboo Tree, Jin Shu, Fanru, Red Yam, Jade Pillow Potato, Sweet Potato, Yam, Sweet Potato, Goose and Sweet Potato.

Millet has round, oval or spindle-shaped tuberous roots in the underground part, and the stems are horizontal or ascending, with occasional twining and multi-branching. The shape and color of leaves often vary with varieties, usually with wide oval shape and different petioles. Cymes axillary, capsules ovoid or oblate, 1-4, usually 2, glabrous.

Sweet potato is a kind of food crop with high yield and strong adaptability, which is closely related to industrial and agricultural production and people's life. Truffle is not only the main grain, but also an important raw material for food processing, starch and alcohol manufacturing industries. Roots, stems and leaves are excellent feeds. ?

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The efficacy of sweet potato:

1, blood: Sweet potato is very rich in nutrition, containing a lot of sugar, vitamins and minerals, which can be effectively absorbed by the human body, prevent malnutrition, and also replenish middle energizer, which is beneficial to spleen and stomach weakness of middle energizer and malnutrition of children.

2, laxative: after the sweet potato is cooked, some starch changes, which can increase the dietary fiber by about 40% compared with that before cooking, which can effectively stimulate intestinal peristalsis and promote defecation. When people cut sweet potatoes, they will see a white liquid oozing under the skin, which contains geniposide and can be used to treat habitual constipation.

3, enhance immune function: Sweet potato contains a lot of mucin, which can prevent the atrophy of liver and kidney connective tissue, improve the body's immunity and prevent the occurrence of collagen disease. The minerals contained in sweet potato play a very important role in maintaining and regulating human functions. Calcium and magnesium contained in it can prevent osteoporosis.

4, anti-cancer: sweet potato contains an anti-cancer substance, which can prevent and treat colon cancer and breast cancer. In addition, sweet potato also has the function of scavenging active oxygen, which is one of the causes of cancer, so the effect of sweet potato on inhibiting the proliferation of cancer cells is very obvious. ?

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