Is potato a crude fiber food?

Potatoes, also known as potatoes, contain 9-20% starch, protein 1.5-2.3, fat 0.1-kloc-0/,and crude fiber 0.6-0.8. Thus, potato has the lowest crude fiber content and the highest starch content. Therefore, potatoes are not a kind of food based on crude fiber.

Crude fiber food refers to food containing more than 2 grams of crude fiber per 100 grams of food. The main consumers of this kind of food are adults and the elderly. When eating, it should be based on the recommended intake of crude fiber in nutrition, 20-35 grams per person per day. Eating more will reduce the utilization rate of other nutrients.

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Eating some foods containing crude fiber can promote gastrointestinal movement and help digestion to a certain extent, which is beneficial. However, crude fiber can also prevent digestive enzymes from contacting chyme, thus reducing the digestibility of nutrients. In addition, crude fiber will also hinder the intestinal absorption of some small molecular nutrients.

The benefits of eating crude fiber food:

1, reducing cholesterol

Eating more crude fiber food at ordinary times can reduce cholesterol in human blood and prevent fat from accumulating in the body, which has a certain preventive effect on hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease and arteriosclerosis.

In addition, people eat more crude fiber food, which can promote the absorption of trace elements such as calcium, iron and magnesium and maintain the balance of nutritional structure in the human body.

2. Prevent and relieve constipation

Crude fiber food contains a lot of dietary fiber, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis after entering the human body, absorb water and swell in the intestine, accelerate the metabolism and excretion of residual substances in the body, and have a good effect on relieving and preventing constipation.

In addition, people eat more crude fiber plants, which can also clear the intestines and detoxify and maintain the balance of intestinal flora. It has obvious preventive effect on human colitis and colon cancer.

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