If you were used to labeling all carbohydrates as fattening foods, you'll love this news. Sweet potatoes, once limited to June parties, are gaining more and more space and importance in the menu of people, especially those who play sports and want to lose weight.
This all began after a survey by the College of Agriculture and Life Scienses in the United States, which found that sweet potatoes can help in the weight loss process. Thanks to its low glycemic index, also known as GI, food is digested more slowly, increasing the feeling of satiety and fighting obesity. In addition, it gradually releases glucose preventing its storage in the body that would turn into fat.
After that, sweetpotato was considered the darling of athletes, considered as the ideal carbohydrate source and leaving the other tubers behind when comparing their nutrient levels.
To give you an idea, sweetpotato has 5 times more calcium, twice as much fiber and more potassium than sweet potato. When compared to cassava, sweetpotato gains in the amount of fiber, calcium, protein, phosphorus and potassium that stimulate the gut, helping to control diabetes and cholesterol and helping to lose weight.
While high-glycemic foods stimulate high blood sugar, forcing the pancreas to work twice to produce insulin, the substance responsible for bringing sugar into cells, the low-glycemic sweet potato makes sugar is absorbed to the exact extent, providing the body with energy in a balanced way without causing glucose spikes, avoiding the production of large doses of insulin and increasing the willingness to exercise.
In the diet, what explains success is the fact that, despite being a carbohydrate, sweet potato behaves like an insoluble fiber that resists gut enzymes. This starch also fights LDL cholesterol and triglycerides, contributing to the prevention of cardiovascular disease.
And the benefits do not stop there. Sweetpotato also contains vitamins A and B, essential for eye and skin health, magnesium, activator of various enzymes, calcium, which acts directly on bones, increased phosphorus, potassium that keeps blood pressure under control. as well as beta-carotene, anthocyanin and vitamins C and D, which help prevent cancer and fight cell aging.
In Brazil, there are four types: white, yellow, purple and reddish potatoes. They come in various shapes such as round, long and tapered and can give a special and healthy touch to both sweet and savory dishes, and can replace the potato in recipes such as soups, salads, purees, among others, depending on your creativity. .
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