Is sweet potato easy to digest?

Sweet potato is a kind of sweet food. Sweet potato has many benefits to the human body. Sweet potato can improve constipation, enhance immunity and other benefits. However, there are some things to pay attention to when eating sweet potato. Sweet potato can be boiled or steamed. It can also be made into sweet potato cakes and potato chips. Sweet potato can also be cooked with rice porridge. Poor gastrointestinal digestion is a common condition. If you have poor gastrointestinal digestion, you should pay attention to your diet and eat some easily digestible foods. Are sweet potatoes easy to digest? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. Are sweet potatoes easy to digest?

Sweet potatoes contain an oxidase, which can easily produce a large amount of carbon dioxide gas in the human gastrointestinal tract. Eating too much sweet potatoes can cause bloating, hiccups, and flatulence. Sweet potatoes have a high sugar content. Eating too much can stimulate the secretion of gastric acid, causing heartburn. In addition, sweet potatoes contain a lot of sugar, which the body cannot absorb all at once. The remaining part stays in the intestines and is easily fermented, causing abdominal discomfort. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that people with dampness blocking the spleen and stomach, and qi stagnation and food accumulation should be cautious when eating sweet potatoes.

2. How to eat sweet potatoes

1. Steamed sweet potatoes

Wash the mud off the sweet potatoes without peeling them, soak them in water for about 1 minute, and then put them in the steamer. After cooking on high heat for 1 minute, turn to low heat for 25-30 minutes, then turn off the heat and simmer for about 5 minutes without opening the lid. If you open the lid and use chopsticks to test and you can easily insert them, it means the sweet potato is cooked and you can take it out and eat it.

2. Sweet potato and rice porridge

Wash and peel the sweet potatoes and cut into small pieces. Wash the rice twice, add water and cook in a pressure cooker or rice cooker. After the water boils, open the lid of the pot, put the sweet potato pieces in, and continue cooking with the lid on. When it boils again, if it is a pressure cooker, turn from high heat to low heat and cook slowly; if it is an electric rice cooker, open the lid and cook. No matter which method you use, stir it from time to time with a spoon or chopsticks to prevent it from sticking to the pan. At the same time, be careful not to let the porridge overflow. When the sweet potato becomes soft and the rice becomes sticky, you can turn off the heat or unplug the plug, leave a small gap in the lid, simmer for a while, and then you can eat it.

3. Dried sweet potato chips

Wash the sweet potatoes and cook them in a pressure cooker. Take it out and let it cool, then peel it and cut it into strips. If you cut it while it is hot, it will not be able to hold its shape. Choose a sunny day and dry the sweet potato strips on the balcony at home for a few days. Turn them over from time to time to allow the sweet potatoes to dry evenly. After about four or five days, it can be eaten.

4. Sweet potato soup

First wash and peel the sweet potatoes, then cut the sweet potatoes into small pieces. Place the sweet potato cubes in a pot filled with appropriate amount of water and cover the pot. After the water boils, add appropriate amount of rock sugar and wait until the sweet potatoes are cooked.

3. Notes

Do not eat sweet potatoes if they have black spots.