subject: Sweet Potatoes Health Benefits [print this page] Sweet potatoes are hot snacks during winter, roasted sweet potatoes are really delicious, but besides in winter, they also can be eaten in other seasons. Sweet potato fruit extract can be good choice for healthier lifestyle. Not only are sweet potatoes readily available, inexpensive, and delicious, there are many other reasons to love this yummy food. Sweet potatoes contain vitamin A, vitamin C, manganese, fiber, B vitamins, potassium and even iron.
They have a bit of history, too. The sweet potato was a staple vegetable in Peru, centuries before Christ. It is thought that Columbus brought the sweet potato to the United States from the island of St. Thomas. When eaten with the skin on (roasted whole or cut up into oven fries), a sweet potato has as much fiber as half a cup of oatmeal, for about 100 calories. The shapes and sizes range from being short and blocky to long and thin.
The tuberous root has oblong/elongated shape with tapering ends and has smooth outer skin whose color ranges from red, purple, brown, and white, depending up on the variety. The red variety has drier and harder flesh while the white or the yellow type has more juicy flesh. The red variety has a characteristic aroma which becomes more prominent on boiling. Sweet potato is good for stomach ulcers and inflamed conditions of the colon.
Sweet potatoes are beneficial for low blood pressure and hemorrhoid because of its high fiber content. If a beta-carotene contest were held, sweet potatoes would tie carrots for first place. That may make them top-notch for fighting chronic diseases like cancer and heart disease, as well as disease related to inflammation, such as asthma and rheumatoid arthritis. The potential health benefits of the sweet potato sporamins in helping prevent oxidative damage to our cells should not be surprising since sweet potatoes produce sporamins whenever subjected to physical damage to help promote healing.
Quitting smoking would be best, but eating plenty of sweet potatoes while you work on it may save your life. Sweet potatoes are a good source of mag?nesium, which is the relaxation and anti-stress mineral. Sweet potatoes contain a small amount of oxalates, which in high concentrations can cause kidney damage. Of course, covering your sweet potato with brown sugar, maple syrup, and marsh mallows is going to skew the nutritional advantage of this wonder veggie.
So are you clear about the nutritional facts and health benefits of sweet potatoes? Its fruit extract are especially good choices when it is not available some time.
