Benefits of sweet potatoes (yams)
Benefits of sweet potatoes
Sweet and regular potatoes belong to carbohydrates group, even they are vegetables.
- Cleaning of blood cholesterol. If you eat vegetables that contain high levels of fiber, it lowers cholesterol. In sweet potatoes to be large amounts of vitamin B6, namely it can reduce blood levels of homocysteine. Homocysteine promotes the development of degenerative diseases of the cardiovascular system. Yams regulate water balance in the organism, lowers blood pressure and improves blood flow, makes it more elastic arterial wall.