I'm loving Raw Sweet potatoes

Derek

Banned
I love raw sweet potatoes, They give a ton of energy and theb sweet thooth goes away for long while.
 

FryBoy

New member
BAD idea! Eating raw sweet potatoes can be harmful to your health.

Check this site, and scroll down to "sweet potato." The important information is this:
Sweet Potato

Sweet potato shows trypsin inhibitor activity. That means it contains an enzyme inhibitor that blocks the action of trypsin, an enzyme that digests proteins. The trypsin inhibitor prevents the digestion of protein. Sweet potatoes with higher protein levels have more of the trypsin inhibitor. This makes raw sweet potato difficult to digest. The trypsin inhibitor is deactivated by cooking.

One way the raw food diet helps people is by supplying food enzymes. Food enzymes do part of the work of digesting the raw food. Enzyme inhibitors increase the amount of work that your body needs to do to digest foods. Enzyme inhibitors force your body to produce more digestive enzymes. This uses up resources that could be used to produce detoxifying enzymes. When animals are regularly fed enzyme inhibitors in research, they become sick. Sweet potato should not be eaten raw.
There's also a link at the end of that article, which leads the this site, which has very technical medical information about the toxicity of sweet potatoes.

Eating raw sweet potatoes will also cause you to have a lot of gas -- the kind that smells really bad and keeps your friends and family away! (Although your dog may like it.)

The same goes for regular potatoes, which should not be eaten raw. This site has more information on that subject.

BTW, in case you didn't know, the leaves of the regular potato plant are poisonous, potentially deadly, and should never be eaten. Leaves of the sweet potato plant, however, can be eaten.
 

Derek

Banned
BAD idea! Eating raw sweet potatoes can be harmful to your health.

Check this site, and scroll down to "sweet potato." The important information is this:
Sweet Potato

Sweet potato shows trypsin inhibitor activity. That means it contains an enzyme inhibitor that blocks the action of trypsin, an enzyme that digests proteins. The trypsin inhibitor prevents the digestion of protein. Sweet potatoes with higher protein levels have more of the trypsin inhibitor. This makes raw sweet potato difficult to digest. The trypsin inhibitor is deactivated by cooking.

One way the raw food diet helps people is by supplying food enzymes. Food enzymes do part of the work of digesting the raw food. Enzyme inhibitors increase the amount of work that your body needs to do to digest foods. Enzyme inhibitors force your body to produce more digestive enzymes. This uses up resources that could be used to produce detoxifying enzymes. When animals are regularly fed enzyme inhibitors in research, they become sick. Sweet potato should not be eaten raw.
There's also a link at the end of that article, which leads the this site, which has very technical medical information about the toxicity of sweet potatoes.

Eating raw sweet potatoes will also cause you to have a lot of gas -- the kind that smells really bad and keeps your friends and family away! (Although your dog may like it.)

The same goes for regular potatoes, which should not be eaten raw. This site has more information on that subject.

BTW, in case you didn't know, the leaves of the regular potato plant are poisonous, potentially deadly, and should never be eaten. Leaves of the sweet potato plant, however, can be eaten.
HUH? Then you better have a conversation with Gillian Mckeith, She tells you to eat them raw, or in salad, soups uncooked.
 
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