Is sweet potato flour considered a coarse grain?

Because the main ingredient of sweet potato flour is sweet potato, basically, sweet potato flour can also be used as a kind of coarse grain. Coarse grains are good for our health. They can help us promote digestion and supplement some nutrients needed by the human body.

1. Sweet potato is a kind of coarse grain.

2. [Coarse grains] are relative to the refined grains such as refined rice and white flour that we usually eat. They mainly include cereals (corn, millet, red rice, black rice, purple rice, sorghum, barley, oats, sorghum, etc.), miscellaneous beans (soybeans, mung beans, red beans, black beans, broad beans, peas, etc.), and tubers (sweet potatoes, yams, potatoes, etc.).

3. [Nutritional value] The nutrients contained in various coarse grains have their own strengths. Oats are rich in protein; millet is rich in tryptophan, carotene, iron and B vitamins; beans are rich in high-quality protein and fat; sorghum is rich in fatty acids and rich in iron. Compared with coarse grains, refined white rice and refined white flour lose some nutrients during the grain processing process, the most serious of which is the loss of vitamin B1 and inorganic salts.