How to make Shanyue delicious

In life, many people like to eat yam, and the sales of yam in supermarkets are also relatively fast. Yam tastes crispy, and many people like to add yam, cut into slices and fry it. In fact, yam is rich in carbohydrates. If you eat too much, it will easily cause weight gain. But there are also a lot of carotene in yam, so how to make yam delicious?

Dioscorea, commonly known as yam. A perennial herb with creeping stems, often purple, cylindrical tubers, opposite leaves, ovate or elliptical, milky white flowers, and dioecious plants.

The rhizome is thick, upright and can reach 1 meter in length. Leaves are alternate, opposite above the middle, rarely or in whorls of 3, with bulbils (epithelials) often growing in the axils of leaves. Leaf shapes vary, from triangular-ovate to triangular-broad-ovate, often with 3 shallow to deeply lobed. The flowers are dioecious, very small, green-white, and all in spike shape, with male inflorescences erect and female inflorescences below. The capsule has 3 wings. Perennial twining herb; with tuberous or rhizoid underground stems; leaves alternate, rarely opposite, simple or palmately compound, completely divided or split; flowers dioecious; rarely monoecious, forming spikes, racemes or panicles; tepals 6, 2 whorls, fused at base; stamens 6, sometimes 3 developed, 3 degenerate; female and male flowers similar, but stamens degenerate or absent; ovary inferior, 8-loculed, styles 3, separate; capsule or berry; seeds winged.

Nutritional value of yam

1. The calories and carbohydrates contained in yam are only about half of those of sweet potato of the same mass. It contains no fat and has a higher protein content than sweet potato.

2. The main component of yam is starch, part of which can be converted into dextrin, the decomposition product of starch. Dextrin can help digestion, so yam is a taro food that can be eaten raw.

3. Yam contains a variety of trace elements, among which potassium content is relatively high. It contains fewer types and quantities of vitamins and almost no carotene.

4. Yam leaves are an excellent source of carotene, and are also a good source of calcium, iron and vitamin C.

Edible effects of yam

1. Strengthen the spleen and stomach and aid digestion

It is beneficial to the digestion and absorption function of the spleen and stomach, and 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 kidneys and improves essence

It strengthens the body, nourishes the kidneys and improves essence. It can be taken to treat symptoms such as spermatorrhea due to kidney deficiency, excessive leucorrhea in women, and frequent urination.

3. Lowers Blood Sugar

It has the effect of lowering blood sugar. It can be used to treat diabetes and is an excellent food therapy for diabetics.