SWEET POTATO BENEFITS

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🎤One food that is popular, especially among rural Jamaicans, is the sweet potato. It can be eaten roasted, boiled or fried and is a tasty and nutritious addition to your diet.

🧠Sweet potatoes are tubers that are grown worldwide  They come in a variety of sizes and colours — including orange, white, and purple — and are rich in vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and fibre.

🧠The fibre and antioxidants in sweet potatoes are great to promote a healthy gut..

🧠Sweet potatoes contain two types of fibre: soluble and insoluble, both of which are easily digestible. These fibres soften your stool making it easier to go

🧠Sweet potatoes are filled with antioxidant properties which are known to protect against certain types of cancers. A group of antioxidants found in the purple strain of sweet potatoes, known as Anthocyanin, has been found to slow the growth of certain types of cancer cells in test-tube studies, including those of the bladder, colon, stomach, and breast.

🧠Eating sweet potatoes can also promote healthy vision as it contains beta-carotene, the antioxidant responsible for the vegetable’s bright orange color.

🧠Beta-carotene is converted to vitamin A in your body and used to form light-detecting receptors inside your eyes.

🧠Consuming sweet potatoes may also improve brain function. The antioxidants protect the brain by reducing inflammation thus preventing any radical damage to that most vital organ.

🧠In this time of the COVID-19 pandemic, building a strong immune system is most important and recent studies have shown that the sweet potato is one food that has immune defense building properties. The orange-fleshed strain of sweet potatoes is one of the richest natural sources of beta-carotene, a compound which is critical to a healthy

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