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Sweet potato leaves (scientifically called lpomoea batatas) is green in colour and it taste bitter and has heartshaped, is a plant that grows in farms and on the drainage roadside. It grows all year especially in a rainy season and it grows wild in the farm.
BENEFITS OF SWEET POTATOES
Anti-Bacteria
When extracting water from sweet potato leaves and add a little salt drink as tea two times in a day it fight against some infection such as syphilis, toilet infection, staphylococcus bacillus cereus.
Improves your Sight
Since sweet potatos leaves contain lutein and zeaxanthin it contribute to prevention of cataracts and age-related macular degeneration. The lutein is an antioxidants and it prevents oxidative damage to eye lens
Bone Benefit
Sweet potatos leaves naturally contain vitamin K which is essential in maintaining calcium in our bone. Including sweet potatos in our meal will reduce the rate of loss bone and post menopausal women. It also helps to recover fast from bruises, cuts and blood clotting issues.
Anti-mutagenic and Antioxidant
Because of increasingly rate of cancer in the world, researchers has proven that sweet potatos leaves contain antioxidants and anti mutagenic compounds that reduce the rate of cancer cells.
Heart Disease
Including sweet potatos leaves in our daily diet will help fight against heart attacks. The vitamin K in sweet potatos leaves reduce inflammation of the cells lining the blood vessels along your veins and arteries
Painful menstruation
Sweet potato leaves regulates the hormones functions reduce the pain of menstruation. Vitamin K clots the blood and avoid excessive sugar during menstruation and relief some pain. Women are advised to often include sweet potatos leaves in their diet.
Skin And Hair
Since vitamin K is essential to our bodies, intake of sweet potatos leaves will help to regrowth our skin and heal wounds. It also promote the health of skin and counteract acne. It keeps the wrinkles and line bay with the production of more collagen which helps to maintain the skin and hair.
How to cook sweet potatos leaves
you can add sweet potatos leaves in your salads
It can be use to cook poradge yam and plantain
It can be used to cocoyam porridges' wrap
You can extract the water and drink as your daily juice.
They can be steamed, fried or boil.
Slice the leaves and add it to the recipes or sauteed with garlic and butter.
Local ways of using sweet potatos leaves
✓ It provides relief from constipation.
✓ It reduce high blood pressure, Anti-Microbial and anti inflammatory.
✓ It boost immune system.
✓ Extracting water cure diarrhea and stomachaches.
✓ It is good for flu's,cold and burn.
✓It reduces depression.
✓ It burn excessive fat
Conclusion
Sweet potatos leaves contain great source of numerous fibre and essential vitamins; * Vitamin A
VitaminB
VitaminC
VitaminD
VitaminE
VitaminK
These natural classes of vitamins is very good for our body especially women and our young girls mostly, to make friend with sweet potatos leaves. personally these research has help me to often include sweet potatos leaves in my meal, salad and many other method mentioned above.
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