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Thanks, I'll give this a try. The problem with sweet potatoes I would buy at my local groceries (I'm in the EU) is it often is crazy sweet (which I both dislik

Thanks, I'll give this a try. The problem with sweet potatoes I would buy at my local groceries (I'm in the EU) is it often is crazy sweet (which I both dislike as a matter of taste and doubt being healthy) and juicing with maple-like syrup after I bake it. Should I better consume it raw? Or is this some sort of healthy non-sugar sweet like chicory syrup?

meristohm 3y ago
I dice and microwave sweet potatoes, after I do the same for the beetroot (which takes a bit longer to cook). Added jicama recently (diced, uncooked), and in combination with sprouted legumes (cooked, or raw if just lentils), apple, cabbage, nutritional yeast, vinegar and olive oil, it was delicious. That's not a strict recipe, just an example of a recent breakfast/lunch.
AndrewKemendo 3y ago
No just bake them in the oven. That sweetness is natural hence the “sweet” potato. My daughter likes to eat them skins and all No need for any additions in my opinion but some folks like to add an oil of some kind. If you’re not into butter then beef lard is really nice etc…
- gnicholas 3y ago
  I like to oven-roast thin slices of sweet potato, and then freeze them. They're great right out of the freezer: a little chewy and a little sweet. No seasoning, just a little olive oil. Have to flip them partway through though, and open the oven a couple times to let the moisture out so they don't steam.
- qwerty456127 3y ago
  Isn't beef lard (as well as butter if the butter had been stored in a freezer, as well as egg yolks if baked to the point they are not liquid anymore) dangerously rich in oxysterols? AFAIK cholesterol (famously abundant in animal fats) gets oxydized into various particularly dangerous forms (which easily pass the blood-brain barrier and actively clog blood vessels) during baking and during freezing.
  - meristohm 3y ago
    News to me, so I went looking for more. This PubMed paper seems to back up what you've raised[0]: Conclusive Remarks As a final point, it appears important to stress that, although the majority of experimental studies have challenged cells or tissues with individual oxysterols, in the living organism oxysterols are present as mixtures, whether of endogenous or of exogenous origin. Like many other molecules with biochemical and/or pharmacological effects, oxysterols interact with one another in such a way as to modulate the effect of such mixtures. Quenching reactions among different components of oxysterol mixtures have been reported with regard to the role of oxysterols in atherosclerosis [46] and IBD progression [39]. Complex interactions of oxysterols likely occur in vivo, thus in vitro results concerning biochemical properties of pathologic amounts of individual oxysterols must be carefully weighed up and, where possible, accompanied and/or followed by analogous experiments with biologically compatible oxysterol mixtures. [0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3757713/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3757713/
    - qwerty456127 3y ago
      Let me add a list of relevant links. I just hope this won't hit some filter as there are too many :-) I haven't read all of them, let alone thoroughly, but these are relevant research papers on the important subject we raised. [01] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jsfa.2740550402 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jsfa.2740550... [02] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140673687924433 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01406... [03] https://www.academia.edu/80933160/High_Total_and_Cardiovascular_Disease_Mortality_in_Adults_of_Indian_Descent_in_Trinidad_Unexplained_by_Major_Coronary_Risk_Factors https://www.academia.edu/80933160/High_Total_and_Cardiovascu... [04] https://www.nature.com/articles/493S2a https://www.nature.com/articles/493S2a [05] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jsfa.2740550402 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jsfa.2740550... [06] https://www.nature.com/articles/493S2a https://www.nature.com/articles/493S2a [07] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07315724.1994.10718401 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07315724.1994.10... [08] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27561087/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27561087/ [09] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128234211000020 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978012823... [10] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24656052/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24656052/ [11] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12531208/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12531208/ [12] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25305550/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25305550/ [13] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21388551/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21388551/ [14] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-nutrition/article/abs/effects-of-diets-rich-in-ghee-or-olive-oil-on-cardiometabolic-risk-factors-in-healthy-adults-a-twoperiod-crossover-randomised-trial/ED6B4C8EB745840BEDB44D8EA8F0F0D7 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-n... [15] http://researcherslinks.com/current-issues/Effect-of-High-Dietary-Consumption-of-Locally/20/1/2741/html http://researcherslinks.com/current-issues/Effect-of-High-Di... [16] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335421256_Biological_study_on_the_impact_of_commonly_used_commercial_fats_and_oil_and_threats_of_atherosclerosis https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335421256_Biologica... [17] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11768237/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11768237/ [18] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10718625/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10718625/ [19] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20870006/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20870006/ [20] https://europepmc.org/article/agr/ind21989519 https://europepmc.org/article/agr/ind21989519 [21] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jsfa.2740550402 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jsfa.2740550... [22] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4036336/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4036336/ [23] https://europepmc.org/article/agr/ind21989519 https://europepmc.org/article/agr/ind21989519 [24] https://cadiresearch.org/topic/diet-indian/animal-and-vegtable-ghee https://cadiresearch.org/topic/diet-indian/animal-and-vegtab... [25] https://www.jcpconline.org/article.asp?issn=2250-3528%3Byear%3D2017%3Bvolume%3D6%3Bissue%3D2%3Bspage%3D56%3Bepage%3D59%3Baulast%3DKhosla https://www.jcpconline.org/article.asp?issn=2250-3528%3Byear... [26] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781118534168.ch18 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/978111853416... [27] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781118534168.ch18 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/978111853416... [28] https://www.meneerspoor.nl/uploads/1/7/4/7/17471559/butter_pone.0158118.pdf https://www.meneerspoor.nl/uploads/1/7/4/7/17471559/butter_p... [39] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27561087/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27561087/ [30] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/26523948_Cholesterol_oxidized_products_in_foods_Potential_health_hazards_and_the_role_of_antioxidants_in_prevention https://www.researchgate.net/publication/26523948_Cholestero... [31] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9931501/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9931501/ [32] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5121705/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5121705/
camkego 3y ago
If you are concerned about glycemic index, try boiling them for 30 mins. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/sweet-potato-glycemic-index https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/sweet-potato-glycemic-i...
- qwerty456127 3y ago
  Glycemic index is kinda retro already :-) Insulinemic index is what's interesting. Sadly, for overwhelming majority of foods, it is very hard to find.

meristohm 3y ago

I dice and microwave sweet potatoes, after I do the same for the beetroot (which takes a bit longer to cook). Added jicama recently (diced, uncooked), and in combination with sprouted legumes (cooked, or raw if just lentils), apple, cabbage, nutritional yeast, vinegar and olive oil, it was delicious. That's not a strict recipe, just an example of a recent breakfast/lunch.

AndrewKemendo 3y ago

No just bake them in the oven. That sweetness is natural hence the “sweet” potato. My daughter likes to eat them skins and all No need for any additions in my opinion but some folks like to add an oil of some kind. If you’re not into butter then beef lard is really nice etc…

gnicholas 3y ago
I like to oven-roast thin slices of sweet potato, and then freeze them. They're great right out of the freezer: a little chewy and a little sweet. No seasoning, just a little olive oil. Have to flip them partway through though, and open the oven a couple times to let the moisture out so they don't steam.
qwerty456127 3y ago
Isn't beef lard (as well as butter if the butter had been stored in a freezer, as well as egg yolks if baked to the point they are not liquid anymore) dangerously rich in oxysterols? AFAIK cholesterol (famously abundant in animal fats) gets oxydized into various particularly dangerous forms (which easily pass the blood-brain barrier and actively clog blood vessels) during baking and during freezing.
- meristohm 3y ago
  News to me, so I went looking for more. This PubMed paper seems to back up what you've raised[0]: Conclusive Remarks As a final point, it appears important to stress that, although the majority of experimental studies have challenged cells or tissues with individual oxysterols, in the living organism oxysterols are present as mixtures, whether of endogenous or of exogenous origin. Like many other molecules with biochemical and/or pharmacological effects, oxysterols interact with one another in such a way as to modulate the effect of such mixtures. Quenching reactions among different components of oxysterol mixtures have been reported with regard to the role of oxysterols in atherosclerosis [46] and IBD progression [39]. Complex interactions of oxysterols likely occur in vivo, thus in vitro results concerning biochemical properties of pathologic amounts of individual oxysterols must be carefully weighed up and, where possible, accompanied and/or followed by analogous experiments with biologically compatible oxysterol mixtures. [0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3757713/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3757713/
  - qwerty456127 3y ago
    Let me add a list of relevant links. I just hope this won't hit some filter as there are too many :-) I haven't read all of them, let alone thoroughly, but these are relevant research papers on the important subject we raised. [01] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jsfa.2740550402 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jsfa.2740550... [02] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140673687924433 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01406... [03] https://www.academia.edu/80933160/High_Total_and_Cardiovascular_Disease_Mortality_in_Adults_of_Indian_Descent_in_Trinidad_Unexplained_by_Major_Coronary_Risk_Factors https://www.academia.edu/80933160/High_Total_and_Cardiovascu... [04] https://www.nature.com/articles/493S2a https://www.nature.com/articles/493S2a [05] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jsfa.2740550402 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jsfa.2740550... [06] https://www.nature.com/articles/493S2a https://www.nature.com/articles/493S2a [07] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07315724.1994.10718401 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07315724.1994.10... [08] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27561087/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27561087/ [09] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128234211000020 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978012823... [10] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24656052/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24656052/ [11] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12531208/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12531208/ [12] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25305550/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25305550/ [13] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21388551/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21388551/ [14] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-nutrition/article/abs/effects-of-diets-rich-in-ghee-or-olive-oil-on-cardiometabolic-risk-factors-in-healthy-adults-a-twoperiod-crossover-randomised-trial/ED6B4C8EB745840BEDB44D8EA8F0F0D7 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-n... [15] http://researcherslinks.com/current-issues/Effect-of-High-Dietary-Consumption-of-Locally/20/1/2741/html http://researcherslinks.com/current-issues/Effect-of-High-Di... [16] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335421256_Biological_study_on_the_impact_of_commonly_used_commercial_fats_and_oil_and_threats_of_atherosclerosis https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335421256_Biologica... [17] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11768237/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11768237/ [18] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10718625/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10718625/ [19] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20870006/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20870006/ [20] https://europepmc.org/article/agr/ind21989519 https://europepmc.org/article/agr/ind21989519 [21] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jsfa.2740550402 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jsfa.2740550... [22] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4036336/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4036336/ [23] https://europepmc.org/article/agr/ind21989519 https://europepmc.org/article/agr/ind21989519 [24] https://cadiresearch.org/topic/diet-indian/animal-and-vegtable-ghee https://cadiresearch.org/topic/diet-indian/animal-and-vegtab... [25] https://www.jcpconline.org/article.asp?issn=2250-3528%3Byear%3D2017%3Bvolume%3D6%3Bissue%3D2%3Bspage%3D56%3Bepage%3D59%3Baulast%3DKhosla https://www.jcpconline.org/article.asp?issn=2250-3528%3Byear... [26] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781118534168.ch18 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/978111853416... [27] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781118534168.ch18 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/978111853416... [28] https://www.meneerspoor.nl/uploads/1/7/4/7/17471559/butter_pone.0158118.pdf https://www.meneerspoor.nl/uploads/1/7/4/7/17471559/butter_p... [39] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27561087/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27561087/ [30] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/26523948_Cholesterol_oxidized_products_in_foods_Potential_health_hazards_and_the_role_of_antioxidants_in_prevention https://www.researchgate.net/publication/26523948_Cholestero... [31] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9931501/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9931501/ [32] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5121705/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5121705/

camkego 3y ago

If you are concerned about glycemic index, try boiling them for 30 mins. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/sweet-potato-glycemic-index https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/sweet-potato-glycemic-i...

qwerty456127 3y ago
Glycemic index is kinda retro already :-) Insulinemic index is what's interesting. Sadly, for overwhelming majority of foods, it is very hard to find.