The golden time to eat sweet potatoes

Eat in moderation

Although sweet potatoes are good, they should not be eaten too much, especially by people with stomach problems. According to traditional medicine practitioner Tran Dang Tai, Vice President of the Oriental Medicine Association of Thai Hoa Town (Nghe An), the fiber and potassium in sweet potatoes can stimulate gastric juice secretion and create gas in the body, causing symptoms of bloating, flatulence, heartburn, and digestive discomfort. In addition, sweet potatoes contain a lot of sugar, which can easily increase the amount of acid in the stomach.

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Combine sweet potatoes with other foods

For people with diabetes, although eating sweet potatoes can help maintain stable blood sugar, they also contain a lot of carbohydrates that cause blood sugar to increase when eaten too much.

Therefore, patients should control their consumption. They should choose white sweet potatoes and combine them with some non-starchy vegetables and a good source of protein to create a balanced meal that does not cause blood sugar to spike.

According to Dr. Doan Thi Tuong Vi - former Head of the Nutrition Department, Hospital 198, sweet potatoes still contain a fairly high amount of sugar, especially sweet potatoes. Diabetics can reduce rice and increase the proportion of sweet potatoes during the diet period, but still have to eat foods rich in protein and fresh vegetables to ensure a balanced diet. People who are overweight or have heart disease should keep their consumption to a minimum, 2-3 times per week.

Should eat boiled or steamed sweet potatoes

Several studies have compared the effects of different cooking methods on the bioavailability of bioactive compounds in sweet potatoes and found that boiling sweet potatoes retains more beta-carotene and makes it more absorbable than other cooking methods such as frying or baking. Steaming sweet potatoes preserves more of the other phenolic compounds in sweet potatoes than other cooking methods.

The golden time to eat sweet potatoes

Eat in the morning: Sweet potatoes for breakfast are the perfect choice for your body because they are low in calories, create a feeling of fullness without hunger, are laxative, and are good for people with constipation. You can eat sweet potatoes with yogurt, whole milk or salad, green vegetables... to ensure enough energy.

Eat at noon: Noon is the best time to eat sweet potatoes, because at that time the calcium in the body can be absorbed within 3 - 4 hours, especially under sunlight to help calcium absorb best.

Who should not eat sweet potatoes?

People with kidney disease: Sweet potatoes contain a lot of fiber, potassium and vitamin A. After eating too much sweet potatoes, it will lead to a large excess of potassium in the body. Meanwhile, people with poor kidney function will have poor excretion and excess potassium. Therefore, the amount of potassium in the human body exceeds the allowable threshold, which will directly affect health and cause cardiovascular diseases such as arrhythmia and heart failure.

Stomach disease: Fiber and potassium in sweet potatoes can stimulate gastric juice secretion and produce a certain amount of gas in the body, causing symptoms such as bloating, flatulence, heartburn, causing digestive discomfort. In addition, sweet potatoes contain a lot of sugar and can easily cause an increase in gastric acid. Therefore, people with gastric and duodenal ulcers should not eat sweet potatoes.

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