Why You Should Eat Sweet Potatoes?

Delicious, crunchy, starchy and edible sweet potatoes are one of the super foods enriched with nutrition, vitamins, fiber, minerals, flavonoids, carotenoids and antioxidants. Many people labeled yams as sweet potatoes but fewer people know that it contains higher amount of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. This starch root vegetable belongs to Convolvulaceae family and cultivated in tropical and warm regions. This vegetable with orange color peel considered as the most amazing verity in providing carotenoids and vitamin A compounds. This sweet vegetable contains higher fiber than yams and potatoes and fiber rich vegetables help in losing weight.
Nutritious Value of Sweet Potatoes
200 grams of cooked, baked potatoes provide following nutritious value:

Calories	180
Potassium	950 mg
Protein	4 g
Dietary Fiber	7 g
Carbohydrates	41 g
Cholesterol	0 mg
Sugar	14 g
Vitamin A	768 %
Vitamin C	65 %
Vitamin K	6 %
Vitamin B6	29 %
Calcium	8 %
Iron	8 %
Manganese	50 %
Copper	16 %
Magnesium	14 %

Health Benefits of Sweet Potatoes
The vegetable is not just delicious and inexpensive; help to gain and maintain overall health as well. Here are the health properties of this super vegetable.
1) Fiber Content: Studies have shown that fiber-rich diets help to digest food and prevent you from constipation. 7 grams of dietary fiber in sweet potatoes improve digestive system with slow burning quality for energy usage.
2) Improve Eye Vision: High amount of Vitamin A and beta carotene in sweet potatoes protect your eyes from sun rays damage and age related macular degeneration which causes vision loss. Carotenoids and Vitamin A also prevent you from various cancers.
3) Strengthen Heart: Potassium and Vitamin B6 play a vital role in lowering high blood pressure and regulating heart rhythm. Potassium maintains cholesterol level while Vitamin B6 keeps the blood flow passages flexible.
4) Skin Health: Beta-Carotene along with other antioxidants like Vitamin C, A & E prevent your skin from sun rays damage and free radicals and revitalize your skin.
5) Other Health Benefits: The nutrients, minerals and powerhouse of antioxidant vitamins protect you from cancers, stabilize blood sugar level, keep you full for long time, ward off stress and enable you to fight against ailments and infections.