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7 Health Benefits of Sweet Potatoes
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Anti-Cancer Potential of Sweet Potato Proteins
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What Happens To Your Body When You Eat Sweet Potatoes Every Day, Benefits Of Sweet Potatoes
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Sweet Potatoes Can Help You Lose Weight
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Yams vs. Sweet Potatoes: Health HacksThomas DeLauer
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Nutrition Values Of Sweet Potato And Health Benefits
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Nutrition Facts and Health Benefits of Sweet Potatoes
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Nutrition facts. Carbs. A medium-sized sweet potato (boiled without the skin) contains 27 grams of carbs. The main components are starches, which make up 53% of Starch. Starches are often split into three categories based on how well they’re digested.
The.Vitamins and Minerals Just one sweet potato gives you 400% of the vitamin A you need each day. This helps keep your eyes healthy as well as your immune system, your body’s defense against germs.Sweet potatoes are especially high in vitamin A and potassium.
They also provide some calcium, iron, magnesium, and folate.The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is an underground tuber. It’s rich in an antioxidant called beta carotene, which is very effective at raising blood levels of vitamin A, particularly in children (1, 2, 3, 4). Sweet potatoes are nutritious, high in fiber, very filling, and delicious. They can be eaten boiled, baked, steamed, or fried.
While sweet potatoes are significantly higher in vitamin A and slightly higher in fiber, the white potato wins when it comes to potassium and vitamin C content.A serving of sweet potato delivers a third of your need for manganese, a mineral that helps produce collagen and promote skin and bone health.Early research suggests that Japanese sweet potato may have specific health benefits to the heart, digestion, and immunity, but more research is required.
The clearest benefit may be to people who struggle with constipation. What Food Does Your Body Need To Stay Healthy?Okinawan (Purple) Sweet Potato – Nutrition Facts and Health Benefits.
Hawaiian purple sweet potatoes, also known as Okinawan potatoes, are packed with antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals. While presenting Okinawan sweet potato nutrition facts, this Buzzle article also describes the exceptional health benefits of this ancient diet staple.Sweet potato has various amounts of nutrients, vitamins and minerals which provides enormous health benefits.
It also helps to maintain the veins and arteries health and also prevents hardening. It possess high amount of phosphorus and beta-carotene which is essential for the cardiac and ocular health.Sweet potatoes are a staple food in many parts of the world. They are a good source of fiber, potassium, vitamins, and other essential nutrients. Some people use the.
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Like all sweet potatoes (such as purple and Japanese sweet potatoes), they are an excellent source of vitamin C, vitamin B2, vitamin B6, and vitamin E. Additionally, they provide dietary fiber, potassium, copper, manganese, and iron and are low in fat and cholesterol [ 1 ].15 April 2018 Sweet Potatoes: Health Benefits, Risks & Nutrition Facts By Jessie Szalay, Live Science Contributor Although they’re soft and creamy enough to be put in pies and called dessert, sweet potatoes are also a surprisingly nutritious vegetable. “Sweet potatoes are high in vitamin A, vitamin B5, B6, thiamin, niacin, riboflavin, and, due to their Leer más Sweet Potatoes: Health.Sweet potatoes offer fiber, potassium, vitamin A, and other beneficial nutrients.
Read about the difference between yams and sweet potatoes, the calories in sweet potatoes, if sweet potatoes.Check out the major health benefits of tomatoes and nutrition facts behind your favorite red fruit. 73% of African Americans said they did not have emergency funds to.
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79 comments
Why you adding Thomas delauer video to your Channel? Do you own this video?
Coming from a Jamaican family, I didn’t know these could ever be confused. I hated yams growing up but having to eat them. Now the sodium content of sweet potatoes was surprising to know. Yams are easily found sold in Caribbean and Asian grocery shops. A regular staple veg. Thanks for sharing.
There is alot of different types of yams and at least four types of sweet potatoes.
The down side! I am a part of the of1%. If every body starts eating sweet potato, my pharmaceutical company that provides the chemo drugs will lose money.
I was only able to afford 2 islands in the Bahamas last week…lol
Sodium ain’t unhealthy cuz u need it to live but too much is, are sweet potatoes really that full of sodium?
Actually, if you looked at most canned Yams ingredients, they say they are actually Sweet Potatoes
Hello Doctor you need to help me…
I want to get cancer please….
Thomas, I love your channel, I don’t eat sweet potatoes every day, but maybe once or twice a week with dinner, I found a regular size sweet, potato contains 73 milligrams of sodium, that seems really negligible. in a sweetI guess,if you eating a ton of them,it could,be an issue, but.
Well, the dowsnside:
It slows down the metabolism through blocking the building of specific hormones.
Keep an eye at this, and you`re fine.
Great news! =D I wonder if the nutrition vs price comparison would still count here in the Netherlands though.. As sweet potatoes are quite expensive here!
This is to fast to tell all the health benefits of sweet potato and yams. Why would you only show the food how it’s served at bars and restaurants. There’s more to the food than just vitamin A. The fibre is excellent to. Your doing good videos just wanted to let people know that they should not worry about this food. Read THE CHINA STUDY. It’s a great book
Is it just me or is it difficult to watch this guy due to how “pretty” he is? He doesn’t even look super guy like even tho he is muscular his face and features have a gayish quality to it, like a gay face thing going on. VEry hot otherwise.
thanks for the info! I love yams, here in Italy I find them only at the african/asian foods shop, I usually eat them with okra which I find in the same shop. the only problem I have is that the ones they sell are huge so I end up eating it for three days in a row ��
I really thought they were the same thing. Thanks for the clarification
sweet potatoes in philippines…
so sweet and so abundant….
Yellow yams and purple are my favorite color!�� unfortunately it’s hard to find those! I like Japanese jams too!
Good to know…love yams! It is a staple and national food in the part of Nigeria that I am from. We even have a Yam festival. ��
I learn that pizza and donut rich in colour
Thats mean its good for your body ����
I started eating sweet potatoes back in May 2019 and I lost 73 lbs. I just eat 1 sweet potato at lunch and that’s all. Nothing else. I eat every hours. I do not start eating till I am hungry. I just came off a 8 hour fast of sleeping. Protein to start, sweet potato at lunch and than dinner. Four hours apart 1200 calories a day. My A1c was 5.7. I count my count my calories on myfitnesspal.com and I write in the journal how I feel.
Boiling is the best way, frying is the worst way to consume them.
was this study done with raw sweet potato or cooked? Does it make a difference?
I corporate sweetpotatoes in my diet. I consume them at night time and i feel light.. i want to lost weight.. im. Gonna update you after 2 weeks:)
Well show us how you make the sweet potato fries…And I like them crispy how crispy can you get them
That really contained no useful information other than “sweet are good for you”. Well duh.
please don’t bother to tell me if all sweet potatoes are the same and equally as good for you like white, orange, purple
Just simply from partaking in this diet my results have been exceptional. I would recommend this diet “sowo hope site” (Google it) to anyone to try it. The results seem to come so fast. I additionally know another person who lost 12 pounds.
When u bake or roast it in the oven, vitamin c will be broken?
After eating it, I usually have bloating,why???
Thanks!
So what happens if you eat them everyday? Title of the video and I still don’t know.
Love sweet potatoes, cut it up throw some cayenne pepper and cinnamon on their, throw them in the oven with a little olive oil on them. Delicious as can be! Beats any French fries…………
Loads of type of sweet potatoes in our country philippines….We got purple sweet potatoes which is much tastier….And I also love purple yum much but much expensive than pale yum
Was this done by a 12 yr old? Not trying to be rude at all but damn…
I add the sweet potato as a side to my lunch along with an apple and lean protein of choice like chicken, fish, pork chops. And I eat the whole thing, skin and all but make sure to rinse first, punch holes in it then nuke it in the microwave oven 5 minutes each side then let it cool for a few minutes and eat it like a hotdog or cut it in two then top with half an avocado, PB2 peanut butter or ground cinnamon.
Is this info the same for yams? They are not the same thing as yam and I like yams better so am wondering about this.
Mmmmm….I guess medicine can go down with a spoonful of sweet potato, too.
Sweet potatoes eaten with the skin helped me with my constipation.
I’m eating sweet potatoes now. So I wanted to hear the benefits of them.
Whiv tym ( mean in lunch or dinner )best to eat sweet potato for weight loss???? Pllz reply
I love baked sweet potatoes mash with some vanilla greek yogurt and honey!!delish and filling
I’ve featured your website in my latest video (my top 8 health websites). Your work is deserving of more views.
Whose here watching this video while eating sweet potatoes?��
morrisons do organic potatoes and broccoli also colly flower, bell peppers, onions, garlic and lots of others. no excuse now
I was waiting for you to talk about the Okinawans and the Naked Mole Rat. If you like them thin sliced raw is there a chance of kidney stones or do they have to be boiled?
Greetings Dr. Greger! Thanks for all the info! Question regarding sweet potatoes: if we bake them can we still enjoy all the benefits you mentioned? Thanks again!
Thanks, these are my favorites for dinner, you could talk about yucca, people say it’s good for those who work out!
Could you please tell me which family,yams or sweet potato, are good against cancer. People call yams” sweet potatoes”. Which ones were tested? Thank you!
The trouble with sweet potatoes is that they are the second highest among common foods in oxalic acid and oxalates, which block mineral absorption and can lead to kidney stones. It turns out oxalic acid’s and oxalates’ bad effects can be somewhat mitigated by taking citric acid with the meal. Spinach is the highest common veggie with oxalates, sweet potatoes are second. So if you are going to have either, take half a teaspoon of pure citric acid with them to neutralize the oxalates and allow your minerals to be absorbed.
So sweet potatoes are not good for weight loss or healthy eating!??
I’m addicted to your videos. It’s causing my eyes and mouth to get dry, my feet to swell, my brain to spin and fill. I need you to do a video on how to make me stop watching your videos, just long enough to heal. Then I’ll find that moderation, without a pill, isn’t just a slow kill, more a thrill, because your videos are so great as I climb this ole hill to a rip WFPB old age! If attempting to watch thousands of your videos doesn’t kill me first…
I wished I would’ve know what veganismo was when I was 15 I would’ve never had my appendix taken. Maybe I would’ve never had that horrible pain in my left side of the chest; which cause me a whole year without getting out of bed. I’m so sad but at the same time happy, I can now move forward into a healthier life thanks to educational videos like this.
What’s the down side, indeed? Once again, God has given us what we need in a tidy, yummy package…all we have to do is eat up and smile:-)
how bout boiled,mashed,real butter,turmeric,black pepper,cinnamon, raw honey?
Just got 3lb Dole Premium Sweet Potatoes for $2.69 here at BJs in casa day maryland says nothing about being organic
White potatoes are the only food that warm me up in the winter, what does it means? (Good or bad for me)
More real facts right from the bullshit console of we need suckers to worry about getting cancer. I just love this great information that is sooo full of crap, because now I know where to get fertilizer.
Well, I guess we can add sweet potato to the list of superfoods like eggs, bacon, sauerkraut, raw honey, chicken, & salmon… etc.
There is such a high dose of beta carotene in one sweet potato that people who eat just one, who also take a multiple vitamin, will be seriously over-dosing on A, which could produce carotenemia. And is there any other hidden toxicity to huge over-doses of vitamin A? As in liver damage? I know someone who ate an orange sweet potato with a large helping of romaine lettuce and red pepper every day, sometimes with carrots, as well as her daily multiple vitamin and she turned orange. It took months for the orange to completely disappear once she stopped this, being that she ate this way for years thinking she was eating healthy. She became very concerned when finally taking notice of her orange skin because she thought she was jaundice. Nobody talks about this. I think this over-dosing on foods with beta carotene should be seriously considered and written about being that food is just like medicine. And plus-nowhere can be found a comparison of the nutritional value of a WHITE sweet potato versus an orange one. Is the white lower in beta carotene? I would think so being that there is no orange color, but by how much exactly? Do you know? I think people should limit the orange, perhaps mix a portion of orange with a white sweet potato, (if the white is in fact lower in beta carotene), and be aware of their vitamin A intake. People who go crazy with healthy foods can actually be damaging their bodies. I know that too much of anything is bad, but most people do not connect this “saying” with potatoes.
4/30/19 Today five years after this video I applied a cc of cooked sweet potato to what appears to be a basal cell carcinoma on my chest under a bandage. This will be the direct contact that is suggested in the research discussed in this video. The idea comes from an eggplant extract BEC5 that is claimed to be highly effective although expensive on non melanoma skin cancers by an Australian doctor. I could get imiquod, the usual prescription which is also fairly effective, but that takes long trips to the dermatologist office and an expensive prescription etc. I will let you know if I see any improvement. In past years I had several of these surgically removed. I also have frozen or chemically removed a number of acitinic keratoses, a precursor of bcc so this may be very useful. BTW, I eat a cup of cooked eggplant EVERY day and follow a 100% low fat whole plant food diet strictly for last couple of years with maybe a few days of nuts thrown in there. Stay tuned.
What about the non-organic?? Potatoes are supposed to be one of the top 10 foods to avoid because of pesticides…
Buddy your wrong! Yams are the orange color and the light color is sweet potato. The yams are not grown here in america. Asia, Africa place like that. I look up this issue a few years ago and had to explain to my husband what the difference was. So there you. The yam is not a round yida bidie thing… Some people from back east think that a mango is BELLPEPPER?!
I will never allow a sweet potato to cross my lips… I come from Idaho where we ear real spuds!! When the chow hall had ham and yams, I went to mcDonalds!!!
I’ve never found a way to prepare sweet potatoes which isn’t disgusting, unless one counts drenching them in unhealthy butter and brown sugar. Anyone have any recipes?
I juiced a sweet potato today with carrots and a orange. Not bad.
I love sweet potatoes! Unfortunately they are quite expensive around here (Germany)…
KUDOS to you Dr. Greger for your truly humanitarian work…
eating what has manifested specifically to be eaten will always be most beneficial. plants that produce fruit/vegetable material that can be eaten without plant death, are the ones that are most beneficial for life.
some simple logic in this intelligent creation we named ‘the universe’!
i would be VERY interested to see studies of in depth dietary information of cancer patients, detailing what they ate prior to being diagnosed.. if such studies exist.
in our child hood we had eaten it more and more, now only we came to know such a food for health.
Foods with a low GI rating, from zero to 55, contain slowly digested starches. A moderate GI index rating is 56 to 69. A high GI rating, between 70 and 100, indicates foods containing quickly digested starches, the ones that cause blood sugar spikes and crashes. According to the University of Sydney, depending on preparation, the GI ratings for sweet potatoes are 44 to 94, while yams rank 35 to 77. The lower ratings apply to one-cup servings of boiled sweet potatoes, which rate 44, and one-cup servings of boiled yams, which rank 35. The highest GI rating of 94 applies to sweet potatoes peeled and baked for 45 minutes. Yams peeled and roasted o
Some recipe ideas!
Don’t bake sweet potatoes, it creates acrylamide, which is carcinogenic (he talks about this in another video, search “acrylamide” on his channel). Boil them, and try like this:
-mash with coconut oil, cinnamon, and stevia
-mash with coconut oil and a little salt
-mash and form into patties with other veggies, cook at a low heat setting to avoid acrylamide formation
-mash into a sweet potato pancake recipe, low heat to avoid acrylamide
-let cool completely, place in a blender with soy milk, pea protein(try vanilla flavor), a little nutmeg and cinnamon (or “pumpkin pie spice), blend into a creamy shake
@NutritionFacts.org can you help me i just started a new youtude chanle debunking anti-vegan material i need advise on how to make high quality videos. thank you
Sweet potato is not a vegetable in my region’s food groups. It’s in the lumped in the same food group as irish potato, yucca, taro, grains and starchy fruits.
I do enjoy a good baked sweet potato and use it to make fries or to sweeten and thicken soups and stews. I was also thinking of making some sweet potato biscuits and pies as well.
@Hyperboroa you must be new to veganism………anything without meat milk cheese and eggs is vegan. Do you think a sweet potato has meat milk cheese or eggs in it?………….NOOOOOOOO
Sweet potatoes Are not a good Choice og you got diabetes.It contains a lot of sugar,and rice your bloodsugar very high.I have never Eaten sweet potatoes,and i Will never do.I do not like sweet foods.
Man, first he tells us that sweet potateos bad, so i go to the market and buy purple potatoes instead.. now this? come on BRO!
How were they cooked? Is boiled or steamed or oven cooked healthier?
One meal potatos next meal this->>>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DxS-CIJFj8&list=PLTogSIzu9b6MkK-4BYpuowDfEPoSnjFSt
Do more research next time. Potatoes and sweet potatoes aren’t even related.
very good news. those with kidney or bladder stones, however, should be careful as sweet potatoes are high in oxalate, the major risk factor for calcium oxalate stones. unfortunately, so many otherwise super foods are high in oxalates and are dangerous for people (and pets) prone to stones.
1 vitamin C and A
2 mineral promote bone health
3 Anti oxidant
4 Anti inflammation
5 don’t cause insulan spike
6 regularate blood pressure
7 weight loss