Yam is highly nutritious, eat right to make up for it.

Yam, also known as Chinese yam, is the rhizome of Dioscorea spp. in the Dioscoreaceae family, which is known to tonify the spleen, nourish the stomach, nourish the lungs and benefit the kidneys.

It is rich in starch, mucilage juice, amino acids, saponins, choline, vitamins B1, B2, C and many mineral components. Consumption of yam is very effective for symptoms such as loss of appetite, diarrhea, coughing, and excessive nighttime urination. Moreover, yam is used as a medicine with mild medicinal properties, which is very suitable to be used for children, the elderly or people who are weak to nourish the body for a long period of time.

In addition, from the nutritional point of view, yam contains amylase, oxidase and other substances, which are helpful for digestion and absorption of nutrients in the gastrointestinal tract. In daily life, consuming some yam can not only nutritional tonic, but also can get good therapeutic effect. The following are two simple yam recipes -

Steamed Yam

Ingredients: 200g of yam.

Practice: Wash and peel, cut into thin slices and steam in a pot. Serve with sugar or honey for flavor.

Effects: Eaten regularly to eliminate fatigue, replenish the deficiency and benefit the vital energy.

Jade and Jade Congee

Ingredients: yam, barley (50~100g each), persimmon cake

Directions: Appeal the ingredients mashed and cooked porridge, with a little crushed persimmon cake, served at any time.

Efficacy: long-term use, not only is conducive to cough, but also to strengthen the body. Elderly people or children at home with chronic coughing and wheezing, barley can be changed to burdock, the dosage ratio of 50 grams of yam, burdock 10 to 15 grams. If the cough is serious, you can add Chuanbei powder 3 grams (pediatric halved), cough effect is better, but also can cure hemoptysis. 21.

Steamed, to ensure hygiene under the premise of the most original way of eating in order to maximize the yam in the nutrients retained. The more nutrients are retained, the more the therapeutic benefits of yams can be maximized.

1、Relieve gastric bloating to help digestion

This is because yam contains a variety of digestive enzymes, such as starch glycolytic enzyme and amylase. It is able to promote digestion and relieve stomach bloating and other uncomfortable symptoms.

2、Protect the stomach wall, prevent ulcers and inflammation

Before eating some more stimulating food or drinking spirits, you can eat some yam to pad it out first. For one thing, like other staple foods, it can insulate the stomach and intestines from the direct irritation of stimulants; for another, we know that yam will have a sticky substance when cut, which is a complex of sugar and protein that protects the stomach lining and prevents damage to the mucous membrane.

3. Prevention of cardiovascular diseases

The saponins in yam can reduce blood cholesterol and triglycerides, thus improving hypertension and hyperlipidemia; the previously mentioned mucin can also reduce fat deposition in blood vessels and have a preventive effect on atherosclerosis.

In addition, yam can also increase the body's T lymphocytes, play a role in strengthening immunity, delaying the effects of aging. However, it should be noted that, according to Chinese medicine, yam has the effect of astringency, constipation is best not to eat.

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The question makes sense; yams themselves belong to the potato family and are rich in starch, dietary fiber, vitamin C and potassium, making them highly nutritious, but can be counterproductive if eaten the wrong way.

First of all, yams as potatoes, that is, rich in starch (about 13%), have the characteristics of a staple food, but at the same time, like vegetables, rich in dietary fiber, vitamin C and potassium. Many times the country people eat yam as a vegetable, if you eat, there is no corresponding reduction in the main food, it is easy to lead to excessive starch and calorie intake, increasing the risk of obesity. And if the yam to partially replace the refined white rice and noodles made of staple food, eat the yam, eat less steamed rice accordingly, then you can get more dietary fiber, vitamin C and potassium and other nutrients, is conducive to health.

Plus the way of cooking, yam can be directly steamed like sweet potatoes, can be stir-fried (do not put too much oil and salt), porridge and stews can also add some. As long as attention is paid to reduce the staple food accordingly, which is very conducive to health. In addition to its high nutritional value, yam is also rich in yam polysaccharides and saponins and many other plant active ingredients, research has found that appropriate eating yam is beneficial to improve blood lipids, blood sugar control, and also helpful in the prevention of some tumors.

But if you eat it with a lot of oil and sugar, such as plucked yam, fried yam chips and blueberry yam. The high oil and sugar ones tend to lead to obesity, which is harmful to your health, not to mention those health effects mentioned earlier, and is something you should try to avoid.

Mention of yam must be no stranger, and girls are also more familiar with, because girls fancy its beauty effect. In fact, in addition to beauty, yam has many other benefits, you can go to the Internet to learn about, one of the most important is that it can enhance the immune function, play the effect of delaying aging and preventing cancer. Yam tastes smooth and mild flavor, so it is very malleable, with other ingredients, both healthy and delicious.

How do you eat the most nutritious yam?

Yam with different ingredients, all can produce different nourishing and health effects. And to maximize its own nutrition is still to be steamed. However, although other practices will have a little damage to its own nutrition, but with the nutrition of other ingredients with the effect is also very good, and other practices will be more delicious than the steamed more delicious a lot.

--Here are four different ways to make the most nourishing and delicious yams:

I. Steamed Yam

1. Wash the yam well (be careful to wear gloves to wash it, as the skin of the yam has saponin in it, which can cause allergies).
   

2. With the skin cut into sections, and then put in a pot to steam (with the skin to steam is to better protect the nutrients are not lost, and the skin inside the saponin in high temperature is destroyed, so with the skin to steam).

3. Wait for the water to boil over high heat, then reduce the heat to medium-low and steam for 15 to 20 minutes.

4. Steamed yam gently tear the skin removed, and then dipped in a little honey, sweet and delicious steamed yam is ready.

II. Boil Yam Congee

1. Clean the yam, peel and cut into small cubes (after peeling the yam, put it inside the salted water to soak to prevent oxidation).

2. Wash the rice and oats and set aside.

3. Rice cooker add water (water to be a little more, water more all right, less trouble), and then add the previously processed yam, rice and oats, and then add goji berries, jujubes, select the porridge button, about 40 minutes can be, eat when you add a little sugar. Nutritious and sweet yam porridge is ready.

iii,Duck Soup with Yam

1. First, clean the duck, cut it into pieces, remove all the fat (this will remove the tartness and make a non-greasy soup), peel the yam and cut it into chunks (put the peeled yam into salted water to prevent oxidation).
   

2. Put the duck pieces in a pot of cold water, add ginger and cooking wine to boil, then fish out and clean, drain and set aside.

3. Add hot water to the pot, put the previously processed duck pieces in it, boil over high heat to skim off the floating foam, add green onion and ginger, turn down the heat and simmer for 40 minutes.

4. Then add the yam and wolfberry, stewed together until the yam is soft and rotten, add salt and mix well, a fresh and fragrant yam stewed duck soup is ready.

Four,chrysanthemum lily

1. Clean and peel the yam and slice it (put the cut yam inside salted water to prevent oxidization).
   

2. Chop green and red bell peppers, scallions and ginger and set aside.

3. Add boiling water to a pot, blanch the yam slices, drain and set aside (blanching is to remove the starch inside the yam).

4. Heat a pan with cooking oil, add onion and ginger and sauté, then add green and red bell peppers and stir-fry to lightly cook.

5. Then add the yam, chicken essence, cooking salt stir fry evenly can be removed from the pan, a simple and delicious stir-fried yam is ready.

Four different practices of nourishing and delicious yam is ready. Although the yam can be and different ingredients with different nutritional value, but you friends with their own, or first check online to see if they are compatible, health and delicious as important as oh.

--Warm Tips:

1. Choose yams with snow-white flesh and sticky juice, so that they are fresher.

2. Yam skins have saponins in them that can sensitize people, so you can wear gloves when handling and cleaning them.
   

3. Once the yam is peeled it should be soaked in salted water, which prevents oxidization.

4. Yam has an astringent effect, so don't eat it yet if you have a cold or diarrhea.

5. Don't eat yams raw, the starch grains in them don't break up and the body can't digest them.

6. Although yams have many benefits, eating too many of them can still cause fire. So eat them at intervals.

7. Yam also has a lot of food compatibility, so to eat yam friends, to check it with what things are compatible with Oh.

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Yam, also known as Dioscorea opposita, Dioscorea terrestris, Dioscorea waiensis, Dioscorea papyrifera, and Dioscorea alata, is an herb listed in the Chinese Materia Medica, and its medicinal source is the dried rhizome of Dioscorea opposita, a plant of the Dioscoreaceae family. Yam can be used for both medicinal and food purposes, both as a medicine and as an ingredient.

Every 100g of yam energy about 57 calories, protein 1.9g, fat 0.2g, carbohydrates 11.6g, yam is ranked in the top ten GI staple food category, diabetic patients, weight loss people can use yam instead of staple food, is a good choice.

The Chinese herb yam has the effect of nourishing and strengthening, aiding digestion, astringent sweating and stopping diarrhea, and is used as a main treatment for diarrhea in spleen deficiency, cough in lung deficiency, diabetic thirst, short and frequent urination, spermatorrhea, women with diarrhea and indigestion of chronic intestinal inflammation.

Yam tonifies the spleen and nourishes the stomach, generates fluids and benefits the lungs, tonifies the kidney and astringes the spermatozoa. It is used for spleen deficiency with little food, prolonged diarrhea, lung deficiency with asthma and cough, kidney deficiency with spermatorrhea, dyspareunia, frequent urination, and deficiency heat and thirst. Bran-fried Yam tonifies the spleen and strengthens the stomach. Used for spleen deficiency with little food, loose diarrhea, and excessive leucorrhea.

A nourishing way to eat yams:

①Yam Cake: Peel, cook and cool the yam and press it into puree, add sugar, put it into a mold and press it into the desired shape.

② yam porridge: we do porridge on weekdays, the yam washed, peeled and cut into small slices into the pot and boiled together, made out of yam porridge for a long time to consume from the nutritional point of view not only reduces the GI value of the whole meal, but also will not be too much intake of energy; from the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, the spleen and stomach.

③ fried yam: yam can be used in medicine can also be used in vegetables, vegetarian fried yam in a dish with both staples and vegetables, this vegetarian fried yam is very suitable for diabetic patients to eat, not only elevated blood glucose will be slowed down, will also be the whole meal nutritionally balanced and reasonable.

④ Yam and rib soup: Yam and rib soup strengthens the spleen, tonic lungs, but pay attention to do the soup must not be too salty, or the loss is not worth it.

Gao Shuang (National Public Nutritionist II, Bachelor of Chinese Medicine, Member of Nutrition Society, Original Creator of Nutritional Science)

Yam has the effect of strengthening the spleen and qi to help digestion, eat more jujube can nourish yin and yang, the two ingredients combined together to do out of the delicious, not only to the body is very beneficial, the taste is also very good, here we share the red dates yam a tasty and simple practice.

Ingredients: yam, red dates, millet, eggs, sugar (can be left out).

First of all, the first ingredients to deal with, yam washed and peeled and cut into small pieces, jujube also cut a little to remove the date nucleus, and then prepare two eggs, half a bowl of millet washed and spare.

Pour the yam, dates, millet, eggs into the cooker, add the right amount of sugar, beat into a fine yam and date puree. Mould brush oil pour into the good yam and dates puree, with a spatula to smooth the surface, cover with tinfoil with a toothpick to tie a few small holes, loaded yam and dates puree into the steamer pot over high heat to steam a little bit, the water boiled steamed for 20 minutes on it.

After 20 minutes, take out the steamed red dates and yam cake and pour it out, cut it into your favorite shape and you can eat it.

Sweet, delicious, nutritious and healthy date and yam cake is ready.

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Tip:

1, if you do not like to eat too sweet or for small children to eat can not put sugar, because red dates this ability to have sweetness.

2, steamed covered with tinfoil can prevent water vapor into the yam cake to affect the taste.

Eating yam strengthens the spleen and stomach, so be sure to eat plenty of it.

Peel the yam, cut it into thick slices, steam it in a hot pot for 15 minutes until soft, dislike it with a spoon to make a yam puree and put it on a plate.

Fresh blueberries in moderation into a pot, add two tablespoons of sugar and simmer over low heat to make blueberry jam.

Once the blueberry jam is simmering, drizzle it over the mashed yams and a plate of blueberry yams is ready.

This dish is sweet and sour, delicious and perfect for the ladies.

You can also stir the mashed yam with a moderate amount of fresh milk, add a moderate amount of sugar and flour, knead into a smooth dough, divide into small dosages, roll out into small cakes, and fry them in a pan with golden brown on both sides.

These sweet little yam cakes are especially good for making for little kids.

You can also make Yam and Rib Soup by peeling the yams and simmering them in a casserole of rib stock until tender.

This Yam and Ribs Soup is especially good for older and weaker seniors.

Yam is very high in nutritional value, eat yam, it is best to yam meat food together, so that the broth can double the nutrients, and also conducive to human absorption.

Yam can be eaten in a variety of ways, either in a vegetarian stir-fry or in soup.

Stir-fried Yam with Wood Fungus. Wood fungus has the effect of clearing lungs, moisturizing lungs, replenishing blood and benefiting qi, which is naturally better if it is accompanied by yam. This dish is suitable for both young and old and has high nutritional value.

Practice: (1) first soak the fungus, clean and blanch the fungus; (2) peeled and thinly sliced Huishan; (3) pan hot oil, the first Huishan stir fry, put the water to simmer until cooked; (4) and then into the carrots, blanched fungus and stir fry evenly, (5) the last seasoning can be, salt, soy sauce, oyster sauce.

Yam and Spare Ribs Soup

Stir-Fried Sliced Pork with Yam

Steamed yam, just wash the yam and put it in a pot to steam it

Tip: Remember to remember to wear gloves when handling yams (important thing to say three times), your hands will itch when you touch the skin and mucus of the yam and it's very hard.

Dioscorea opposita，又称薯蓣、土薯、山薯蓣、怀山药、淮山、白山药，是药食同源的植物，其肉质细嫩，含有极丰富的营养保健物质。 It is also mentioned in the Compendium of Materia Medica that it has tonic effects such as tonifying the middle and strengthening the muscles and spleen. So, how to eat the most nutritious yam?

　　First of all, to say the most nutritious, it can be said that in all yam practices, fried yam is the most nutritious and delicious. Yam cut into slices or filaments in the wok stir-fried, due to heating time is short, containing nutrients, especially vitamin C is lost less. For example, vegetarian yam fried fungus, tomato fried yam, meat yam fried meat, yam fried waist flower, yam fried shrimp, yam fried chicken.

　　Secondly, stewed yam. Yam stewed chicken, spleen and stomach, the most suitable for fall and winter nourishment. Cut the yam into segments, with a pressure cooker will be slightly pressure chicken pieces three mature, pour into the yam segments and add berries and other accessories, and then with a slight fire can be burned for 20 minutes. Yam stewed pork ribs, nourish the kidneys and benefit the essence, the pork ribs with hot water after boiling clean, and then put into the pot with water to cook for 20 minutes, put in the cut yam, add other ingredients and seasoning, and then continue to simmer for 15 minutes on medium heat.

　　Then, it is boiled yam. Kidney qi insufficiency is manifested as lumbar and knee weakness, lower limb weakness, spermatorrhea and premature ejaculation, dizziness and forgetfulness, frequent urination, etc., you can drink boiled mutton and yam soup. Mutton 500 grams of soup until the meat is rotten, add 500 grams of yam block, goji berries 100 grams, simmer for half an hour, according to taste plus seasoning, especially suitable for winter tonic.

　　Lastly, there is steamed yam. If you are recovering from a serious illness and don't have much appetite, you can choose the simplest way of steaming. The yam will be peeled, cut into sections, steamed in a pot, and then dipped in sugar to eat, fresh and soft, sweet and delicious. This way of eating is soft and rotten, and is also suitable for patients with chronic diseases, such as high blood pressure and stomach problems. Like desserts and weak women can also blanch the yam in water, pouring boiled honey sauce, eat can nourish yin and blood.

　　Also, cooking yam and rice porridge is great. Boil yam, round-grained rice and wolfberry together. You can cut the yam into cubes, and then wash the round-grained polished rice, and put them together in a pot with water to simmer in. When the porridge is good, add the wolfberry, and when it opens, you can start the pot. If there are conditions of the family, you can also change the round-grained rice into purple rice, because purple rice is also called blood glutinous rice, after taking the effect of blood is very good.

　　Finally, special reminder, yam contains diosgenin components in the human body can synthesize hormones, such as testosterone and estrogen. Therefore, for men suffering from prostate cancer, women suffering from breast cancer patients should not be eaten, and yam has astringent effect, colds, dry stools and intestinal stagnation should not be used, in addition, persimmons, pig liver should not be eaten with yam.