Boiling Sweet Potatoes Is The Best Way To Eat Them
The best way to eat sweet potatoes appears to be boiling them. Boiling sweet potatoes increases the bioavailability of its nutrients more than steaming, baking, or roasting does.
The reason why boiling makes sweet potatoes nutrients more digestible by the body is boiling thins the cell walls of the sweet potato which gelatinizes its starch, which enhances it bioavailability of its nutrients and antioxidants.
On top of making the nutrients of sweet potatoes more digestible by the body, boiling sweet potatoes also lowered the glycemic level compared to steaming, baking, or roasting.
This means that consuming boiling sweet potatoes reduced the blood sugar spike compared to the consumption of steamed, baked, or roasted sweet potatoes, and it reduced the spike by almost half.
We often remove the skin of sweet potatoes when we cook them, but it is better to keep the skin on because the skin has ten times the antioxidant power of its flesh, and has an antioxidant level that is comparable to blueberries.
Though science does support the health benefits of sweet potatoes I refrain from eating hybridized foods, and sweet potatoes are hybridized.
I am a realist and know it is healthier to eat plant foods than it is to eat foods made from animals, whether they are hybrid are not.
The consumption of non-hybrid plant foods is the way to go because they retain their chemical affinity with the body and therefore better support homeostasis.
The hybridization of plants compromises the chemical affinity and there doesn’t support homeostasis the way they should. Their consumption is still better that the consumption of animal products and processed foods.
So if you are replacing animals products and processed foods with foods like sweet potatoes you are doing less damage to your body, but consuming non-hybrid plant foods is always best.
Find the best plant foods to consume on this nutritional guide based on the Dr Sebi food list.
