Sihaiwang: spring is a good season to eat wild vegetables. As a kind of coarse grain, sweet potato is very popular with people. In our life, we usually talk about sweet potato. We don't pay much attention to sweet potato leaves. In fact, sweet potato leaves also have very good nutritional value, which can play a great role in our health care.
Nutritional value of sweet potato leaves
Modern nutrition research has found that sweet potato leaves have special flavor and rich nutrition, which are incomparable to many kinds of vegetables. Vitamin C, B2, carotene and & alpha; - tocopherol are abundant, which are good sources of minerals for human body.
According to analysis, sweet potato leaves contain rich carotene, vitamin C, calcium, phosphorus, iron and essential amino acids, while oxalic acid content is very small.
Sweet potato leaves are also rich in flavonoids, which can catch the "killer" of oxygen free radicals in the human body. They have many health functions, such as anti-oxidation, improving the ability of disease resistance, anti-aging, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer.
In addition, modern scientific research also shows that sweet potato leaves and tubers contain a large amount of liquid protein, which can prevent the fat deposition of cardiovascular system, maintain the elasticity of arterial blood vessels, help prevent coronary heart disease, at the same time, prevent the atrophy of connective tissue in liver and kidney, and maintain the lubrication of channels, respiratory tract and joint cavity.
The fiber rich in sweet potato leaves can also speed up the operation of food in the gastrointestinal tract, which has the effect of cleaning the intestinal tract.
After reading the above introduction, we can see that the nutritional value of sweet potato leaves is also very high, so if you want to better ensure a healthy diet, you can't ignore the seemingly ordinary but surprisingly nutritious food in the daily life.