Is it okay to eat baked sweet potatoes with the skin?

Sweet potatoes are a very common food in our lives, especially in winter, and people often see roasted sweet potatoes. Many people want to know whether they can eat baked sweet potatoes with the skin. Generally speaking, baked sweet potatoes are peeled before eating to avoid food poisoning.

1. Don’t eat baked sweet potatoes with the skin on in winter

Nowadays, the hot roasted sweet potatoes are sweet and delicious, and some are even roasted to the point of oozing sugar and oil. Sweet potatoes with crispy skin are even more popular, and many people eat them with the skin.

Experts say that it is best not to eat baked sweet potatoes with the skin, because the skin contains more bioalkali, and eating too much can cause gastrointestinal discomfort. In particular, sweet potato skins with black spots should not be eaten as they may cause poisoning.

2. Nutrition

Sweet potatoes are rich in nutrients. According to measurements, each kilogram of sweet potatoes contains 290 grams of sugar, 23 grams of protein, 5 grams of crude fiber, 2 grams of fat, and also contains a variety of vitamins and minerals. The vitamin content is comparable to that of citrus and orange fruits, especially the yellow-heart sweet potato, which contains 52 mg of carotene per 100 grams. Sweet potatoes can provide a large amount of heat energy for the human body. 1 kg of sweet potatoes can produce 5317 kilojoules of heat, while 1 kg of white flour or rice only produces 14779 kilojoules of heat. What’s even more amazing is that the protein contained in sweet potatoes complements the protein in rice and flour, and can significantly make up for the deficiency of vitamin C in flour, calcium in rice and the lack of carotene in both. Eating sweet potatoes together with rice and white flour can improve the nutritional value of the staple food and prolong people's life.

3. Sweet potatoes should not be eaten raw

Because the starch cell membrane in raw sweet potatoes is not destroyed by high temperature, it is difficult to digest in the human body; at the same time, when cooking sweet potatoes, the cooking time should be appropriately extended so that the "gasification enzyme" contained in the sweet potatoes can be destroyed, and there will be no discomfort such as bloating, heartburn, hiccups, nausea, and flatulence after eating.