Should you eat sweet potatoes on an empty stomach?

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Sweet potatoes are a healthy way to satisfy carbohydrate cravings. Sweet potatoes have essential nutrients, which can include vitamin C, calcium, beta-carotene and high levels of slow-release carbohydrates. For those looking to eat sweet potatoes for weight loss, here's why it can be an important food to help you achieve your goals. However, whether to eat sweet potatoes on an empty stomach is a question many people are interested in. Read more to understand more about this.

1. Sweet potato

Sweet potatoes are often identified by their coppery skin and vibrant orange flesh, although hundreds are grown worldwide in colors such as white, cream, yellow, purplish, and deep purple. While they're often found on holiday tables covered with marshmallows or mixed with added sweetener, they're not necessary! As the name suggests, sweet potatoes have a naturally sweet flavor, enhanced through cooking methods such as roasting. They are also one of the top sources of beta-carotene - a precursor to vitamin A.
Unlike the potato (the edible tuber of the water spinach family), the “sweet potato” is a large edible tuber in the water spinach family. They also differ from yams, which are edible tubers in the lily family and are native to Africa and Asia. Chances are the "sweet potato" found in your local supermarket is actually a variety of sweet potatoes. True yams can be distinguished by their black/brown color, bark-like skin, and white or purple flesh.
Sweet potatoes with orange flesh are the richest in beta-carotene. Sweet potatoes with purple flesh are richer in anthocyanins. Beta-carotene and anthocyanins are naturally occurring “phyto” plant chemicals that give vegetables their bright colors. These phytochemicals are studied for their potential role in human health and disease prevention
If you trade sweet potatoes for white potatoes, you still want to make it easy: Although sweet potatoes are a good source rich in beta carotene, but they have a high glycemic index and glycemic load — as high as white potatoes. Most people don't eat sweet potatoes in the same amount as they eat white potatoes, which is probably why studies have not found sweet potatoes to be the main culprits for weight gain and diabetes.
Sweet potatoes are rich in vitamin B6, vitamin C, vitamin A in the form of beta-carotene, potassium, and fiber. Sweet potatoes also have many other useful uses, help maintain body shape, beautiful skin, especially sweet potatoes also prevent dangerous diseases such as cancer, stroke, heart disease... In addition to tubers, sweet potatoes can edible leaves and shoots, Boiling sweet potatoes retains more beta-carotene and makes the nutrients easier to absorb than other cooking methods such as baking or frying. Up to 92% of nutrients can be retained by limiting cooking times, such as boiling in a pot with a tight-fitting lid for 20 minutes. Cooking the skins also helps minimize the leaching of nutrients including beta-carotene and vitamin C.
However, eating sweet potatoes the wrong way, especially on an empty stomach, can cause health problems.

2. Should you eat sweet potatoes on an empty stomach and how to eat sweet potatoes without harming your health?

2.1. Should you eat sweet potatoes when hungry Sweet potatoes are not good if you eat them when hungry. This is because sweet potatoes can increase acid production in the stomach. If you have stomach problems, you should not eat potatoes on an empty stomach, if you want to avoid making your illness worse.
In sweet potatoes contain a lot of sugar, if you eat a lot, especially on an empty stomach, it will cause increased secretion of gastric juice, which leads to intestinal heat, bloating, and heartburn. To reduce this situation, you should boil potatoes and potato juice thoroughly or add a little alcohol to cook to destroy the yeast in the potatoes. Drinking ginger water will help you reduce the symptoms of bloating. In addition, when you are hungry, your blood sugar is low, if you eat sweet potatoes, it will lower blood pressure, causing fatigue.
2.2. Should you eat sweet potatoes in the evening Do not eat potatoes in the evening because they are prone to acid reflux, especially those who have a weak stomach or have a poor digestive system, this will cause bloating, Moreover, At night, metabolism slows down, making it harder to digest and leading to insomnia.
It will be good for your body if eating sweet potatoes in the morning, with fresh milk or yogurt, some seeds and green vegetables will be a nutritious breakfast and provide an abundant source of energy for the body.
2.3. Sweet potatoes should eat the skin Sweet potatoes are a very good food with many nutrients and its useful effects, especially for people with constipation, but eating the skin of sweet potatoes is not good for the digestive system. your chemistry.
Brown spots, black spots on sweet potato skins, when eaten, will cause loss of flavor but are dangerous to health, can cause food poisoning.

Some notes when eating potatoes To avoid harmful effects to health, you need to pay attention to some problems when eating potatoes:
Potatoes with red skin and yellow flesh are one of the most effective potatoes. White intestine white will help relieve colds and flu and cure constipation Sweet potatoes and vegetables contain a lot of calcium, so they should not be eaten regularly, can cause kidney stones To balance nutrients, you should eat animal and vegetable protein. Stored in a clean, cool, dry place, where there are no mice, and should be used within a week. When eating potatoes, you should pay attention to damaged parts such as sweet potatoes, potatoes that have sprouts and green skins that contain toxins. Please regularly monitor the Vinmec website (www.vinmec.com) to update useful health care information and Leave information when you need medical advice and support!

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