Health Benefits Of Sweet Potatoes - Sweet Potato Nutrients, Nutrition Data And Calories

In this video we discuss the health benefits of eating sweet potatoes. We also cover sweet potato nutrients, nutritional data and facts, and the calories of sweet potatoes Transcript/notes Sweet potatoes are not grown from seeds, they are actually grown from slips, which are sprouts grown from existing sweet potatoes. They are typically planted in the spring love hot climates, grow underground, and they are actually considered to be swollen roots. And they take about 90 to 150 days to grow. 1 medium baked in the skin sweet potato provides about 103 calories, 23.6 grams of carbohydrates, 0.2 grams of fat, 2.3 grams of protein, 3.8 grams of fiber and less than 7.4 grams of sugar. Sweet potatoes have a great micronutrient profile, as they are extremely high in vitamin C, which plays an important role as an antioxidant and promotes skin, bone and ligament health, vitamin b6, which can help brain function, and benefits the nervous and immune systems, pantothenic acid, which is important in the metabolism of fatty acids, amino acids and carbohydrates. Sweet potatoes are also high in potassium, which helps muscles contract, and also help maintain normal fluid levels and manganese, which is important for normal brain and nerve function. Since sweet potatoes are high in fiber, they can be beneficial to gut health, and studies have shown that purple sweet potatoes contain antioxidants that can be beneficial to healthy gut bacteria. And the skin of sweet potatoes are extremely nutrient dense. Sweet potatoes are also rather inexpensive as they usually cost around $2 per pound, which equates to about $.50 for a medium sized sweet potato. Sweet potatoes can be consumed in many different ways as they can be boiled, as a baked sweet potato, they can be roasted, served as mashed sweet potatoes or even eaten at fries. Bottom line is that sweet potatoes are a great, nutrient dense root vegetable that are healthy and provide many benefits to the body. And it can also be satisfying to know that you are consuming something created completely through nature. Timestamps 0:00 How do sweet potatoes grow? 0:17 Sweet potato calories and nutrition 0:33 Sweet potato micro nutrients 1:07 Some health benefits of sweet potatoes 1:21 Cost of sweet potatoes