The efficacy of purple sweet potato

Everyone has eaten purple sweet potatoes. They taste very good and are purple in color. In addition to being rich in nutrients, this type of potato is also rich in anthocyanins and selenium. Speaking of the benefits of purple sweet potato, it has many merits. Purple sweet potatoes have the strongest antioxidant capacity. As people age, many free radicals will appear in their cells. To eliminate these free radicals, eating more purple sweet potatoes can help. Secondly, it can promote gastric motility, maintain the excretion of intestinal feces, and solve constipation.

In fact, purple sweet potatoes have many other benefits, but we must know that good things cannot be eaten too much, otherwise there will be side effects. Eating too much purple sweet potatoes will cause you to fart, which helps to expel excess air from your abdomen. If you don't want to fart in front of others, then you must not eat too much purple sweet potatoes. Let’s take a look at other benefits of purple sweet potatoes.

Anti-mutation

Purple sweet potato anthocyanins can effectively inhibit the mutagenesis caused by heterocyclic amines. Two anthocyanins isolated from purple sweet potatoes have strong anti-mutagenic effects.

Liver protection

Purple sweet potato beverages containing a large amount of anthocyanins can significantly inhibit liver damage caused by carbon tetrachloride, and anthocyanins can inhibit acute liver damage caused by carbon tetrachloride.

Effects on cardiovascular disease

Anthocyanins have the effect of reducing cardiovascular disease. In in vitro experiments, anthocyanins can significantly inhibit the oxidation of low-density lipoprotein and platelet aggregation, both of which are the main causes of atherosclerosis.

Health care function

Purple sweet potatoes contain about 20% protein, including 18 kinds of amino acids, and are easily digested by the human body. In addition, purple sweet potatoes contain a large amount of anthocyanins with high medicinal value. Anthocyanins are natural and powerful free radical scavengers that can prevent and treat more than 100 diseases and are known as the seventh essential nutrient.

High in fiber

It can promote gastrointestinal motility, excrete carcinogenic and toxic substances in feces, maintain gastrointestinal patency, and prevent the occurrence of gastrointestinal diseases.

The above introduces the relevant effects of purple sweet potatoes. People who like to eat purple sweet potatoes must know the various good effects of purple sweet potatoes. If you don’t like to eat purple sweet potatoes, then for your own nutritional balance, you must eat some appropriately. There are also some taboos in eating purple sweet potatoes. You cannot eat them raw. You have to wait until the purple sweet potatoes are fully cooked before eating them, otherwise the nutrients in the purple sweet potatoes cannot be absorbed by the body.