What soup is best to make with yam?

Autumn is more suitable for health preservation. Making soup in autumn can nourish the body. Yam is a relatively good dish for making soup. Yam can be made into soup with many ingredients. The taste of soup made with different ingredients is different and the nutritional value is also different. Yam can strengthen the spleen and stomach, lower blood sugar, and prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. What kind of soup is best made with yam? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. Ingredients

250g yam, 50g black fungus, 500g chicken, 150g dried bamboo shoots, some ginger, some cooking wine, some salt

2. Steps

1.Cut the chicken into pieces.

2. Put ginger and chicken into the pot and cook over high heat.

3. At the same time, you can soak the clean water in warm water.

4. Then cut into small pieces.

5. After the chicken soup in the pot boils, remove the floating foam and add dried bamboo shoots and cooking wine.

6. Bring to a boil again over high heat.

7. Then add the soaked black fungus.

8Add yam.

9. Cook over high heat for 15 minutes, then switch to low heat and cook for about half an hour before serving.

3. Yam Effects

1. Strengthen the spleen and stomach

Yam contains substances such as amylase and polyphenol oxidase, which are beneficial to the digestion and absorption function of the spleen and stomach. It is a medicinal and food product that can nourish the spleen and stomach. It can be eaten regardless of spleen yang deficiency or stomach yin deficiency. Clinically, it is often used together with Weichangyin to treat symptoms such as spleen and stomach weakness, poor appetite, fatigue, and diarrhea.

2. Nourishes the lungs and relieves cough

Yam contains saponins and mucus, which have lubricating and moisturizing effects, so it can benefit the lung qi, nourish the lung yin, and treat symptoms of lung deficiency, phlegm, cough and long-term cough.

3. Lowers Blood Sugar

Yam contains mucus protein, which has the effect of lowering blood sugar. It can be used to treat diabetes and is a good food therapy for diabetics.

4. Prevent obesity

Yam is a high-nutrition, low-calorie delicacy. Every 100 grams of edible yam contains only 56 kcal of calories. In addition, yam can reduce the accumulation of subcutaneous fat, so eating yam in moderation can prevent obesity.

5. Replenish kidney deficiency

The rich nutrients in yam can strengthen the human body, nourish the kidneys and improve the essence. It has auxiliary effect in the treatment of symptoms such as spermatorrhea due to kidney deficiency, excessive leucorrhea, and frequent urination.

6. Prevents Cardiovascular Disease

The Dioscorea saponins in yam can accelerate the metabolism of cholesterol in the human body, so people with high cholesterol can eat yam regularly to protect their cardiovascular health. Moreover, yam can effectively prevent blood lipids from precipitating in blood vessel walls and prevent cardiovascular diseases.

7. Strengthens Bones

The mucus polysaccharides in yam can form bone after combining with inorganic salts, making the cartilage elastic, while also enhancing bone strength and density. Therefore, people with osteoporosis can eat more yam to prevent and improve osteoporosis.