Sweet Potato Leaves Surprising Health Benefits
Eating sweet potato leaves contains numerous nutrients, vitamins, and minerals, which has surprising and amazing health benefits to the body.
Sweet potato is a plant belong to the morning-glory family of Convolvulaceae. This plant bears a large, sweet-tasting, tuberous roots vegetable, which was mostly used for culinary purposes similar to a regular potato.
This plant can be usually found in tropical climate countries including the Philippines. Its crops were commonly used in making desserts, pastries, and different types of dishes in global cuisines, because of its sweet and delicious flavor.
It is also a herbaceous perennial vine with an alternate heart-shaped leaves, which has been traditionally used by ancient people for medicinal purposes. Its leaves can be both used for cooking purposes and as herbal medicine.
Sweet potato leaves are also known as camote tops, which have been mostly consumed in the island in the Pacific Oceans including Asian and African countries. It is very effective in treating and preventing several types of diseases. It can be also used as the natural alternative to high-cost treatments and medications.
Its leaves contain nutrients such as dietary fiber, niacin, thiamine, beta-carotene, vitamins A, B, C, D, E, and K. It also contains minerals such as sodium, potassium, aluminum, boron, copper, calcium, zinc, magnesium, phosphorus, manganese, and sulfur.
Camote tops can treat and prevent numerous diseases such as diabetes, cancer, kidney stones, liver diseases, hypertension, boils, acne, pimples, bowel movement problems, dengue fever, heart diseases, and kills bacteria causing diseases.
It has also the ability to reduce blood sugar, cholesterol levels, prevent infections, and boosts the immune system. It also contains a lot of antioxidants that can help the body to fight free radicals, which can cause several types of diseases.
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The article is very interesting. I need more about potato leaves.
I am grateful for this information on the health benefits of sweet potato leaves.
sweet potatoes of all colours, shapes and tastes grow in my country where i live, and also a stable food. i was misinformed by uninformed people that it contained only carbohydrates and that we were to eat less of it, and more white rice! Quite the opposite!
And the leaves? O man, it is news to me. I had thought they were stock food, lacking nutrients; me lacking nutritional knowledge. Though my dad said they were edible and that he had eaten them at the mission school mess. I thought it was because they did not have other greens to eat.
Anyhow, thanks a lot for this information. i can’t wait to go home and pick those nutritious leaves, growing wild bountifully, juicy looking!
cheerio!
Naomi
How is it prepare for soup
thanks so much for the good information, please how to use it different ways