The effect of sweet potato leaves
Once upon a time, sweet potato leaves are the people abandoned, were all Naqu pigs. And people just take root (sweet potato) consumption.
In recent years, with the discovery of the value of sweet potato and promotion of health, sweet potato leaves are also being studied, followed by sweet potato dip the light. This is not research also fills a study found, the original sweet potato leaves was ignored for many years of quality health care “queen of vegetables”!
In fact, sweet potato leaves, or do magic organic predecessors told me. In order to understand this strange vegetables, I seek to Google, enter the keyword “sweet leaf” and “queen of vegetables”, harvest or not small, of course, online presentation is just a general sweet potato leaves, and our sweet potato leaves are organic, would like to stress the so-called therapeutic role must ensure that the quality of ingredients. Organic vegetables are the highest level of security of vegetables and, therefore, can play the best therapeutic effect.
The nutritional content of sweet potato leaves
Sweet potato shoots Ipomoeabatatas (L.) Lam. Also known as sweet potato leaves, sweet potato leaves, sweet potato for the Convolvulaceae species, is by artificial selection and breeding of sweet potato seedlings for food out of the top shoot-tip Spear species in Hong Kong is still to the world known as the “queen of vegetables”, “Longevity and vegetables” and “anti-cancer vegetables”, the Asian Vegetable Research Center has sweet potato leaves as a highly nutritious vegetable varieties.
Nutrient-rich sweet potato leaves, green fresh, rich milk refreshing, most of its nutrient content than spinach, celery, carrot, cucumber high, especially carotenoids, three times higher than ordinary carrots than fresh corn, taro contour 600 times.
Nutrient-rich sweet potato shoots, each 100 grams of sweet potato vine seedlings, and leaves the top of 10-15 cm, petiole collectively known as stem classes. Sweet potato shoot tip is rich in protein, carotene, vitamins, iron and calcium.
According to laboratory analysis: crude protein quality shoot-tip dry weight of 21.1% -15.1%, with pork, beef quite. Stems and leaves and shoot tip protein was 2.7%, carotene for the 5580 international units / 100 grams of vitamin C is 41.07 mg / kg, calcium 74 mg / kg, iron 4 mg / kg, vitamin B1, 3 mg / kg , nicotinic acid 6 to 10 mg / kg, B6 2.1 mg / kg. According to the China Preventive Medicine detection, sweet potato leaves shoot tips and celery, cabbage, spinach, cabbage, rape, leek, cucumber, eggplant, carrots, tomatoes and other 13 kinds of vegetables, compared to the 14 kinds of nutrients, protein, fat, calories, carbohydrates, fiber, calcium, iron, phosphorus, carotene, vitamin C, B1, B2, niacin, etc. 13, ranks first in sweet potato leaves.
Sweet potato leaves the role of health care
Sweet potato shoot tip is rich in mucus protein, sweet potato leaves with enhanced immune function, enhance the body resistance to diseases, promote metabolism, anti-aging, lowering blood sugar, laxative diuretic or platelets, bleeding, prevent arteriosclerosis, preventing cells from becoming cancerous, prolactin detoxification, protection of eyesight, good health care function to prevent night blindness.
At present, the United States as a very sweet potato shoot tip development prospects of the health longevity dishes. Japan, the United States and other countries and even sweet potato stems as a longevity food or space food, Germany, said the sweet potato leaves, tip for the queen of vegetables.
City hard to find a trace of sweet potato leaf
Sweet potato leaves such a good thing, how in the vegetable market have never seen it? So we see this dish did not know how to start with we go … … this, the “Legal Evening News” had been described as a “food market sweet potato leaves is a long and almost invisible treasure “reported. Reports are described as follows:
Autumn and winter of the capital, it is “popular potato generation”, when double the amount of sweet potato market. Asian Vegetable Research Center can be referred to as “queen of vegetables” sweet potato leaves are hard to find a trace in the capital.
Asian Vegetable Research Center will be sweet potato leaves as a highly nutritious vegetable varieties. In Europe and the United States, Japan, Hong Kong and other places, with sweet potato leaves make the food has been put on the hotel, restaurant tables.
Issued to reporters this morning, the new wholesale market was informed that, recently, sweet potato daily capacity of 300,000 kilograms available about the Japanese market in October than the quantity of about 10 million kg. Yuegezhuang wholesale market of today and yesterday sweet potato market is 2 million kg in October this figure is already listed average daily volume of 2 times.
The reporter visited the yuegezhuang wholesale market, Ming Temple farm and sideline products wholesale markets, wholesale markets in Beijing beautiful land, the new hair to wholesale markets, wholesale vegetable market eastern suburbs, have found no trace of sweet potato leaves. Beautiful land of staff, said there had never been sold sweet potato leaves.
Ming Temple wholesale business, said: “We are in the countryside close sweet potato, and the remaining leaves are fed to livestock, and has never been Nachulaimai ah.”
Relevant experts told reporters that sweet potato is the sweet potato leaf seedlings mature stems at the top of leaves on the ground, because many people do not understand the value of sweet potato leaves, so the supermarkets have not seen the sweet potato leaves to sell. Farmers harvest sweet potato sweet potato leaves with the stems will be thrown together in the ground, or as feeding livestock feed. As for the way people eat sweet potato leaves, experts said that “they have not done such a detailed study.”