Kumara Benefits
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Kumara (sweet potato) is a high value food and traditional remedy. Its leaves, skin, and flesh are used to manage blood sugar, protect against oxidative stress, heal wounds, and support digestive health.
The leaves are more nutritious than the root and can be eaten as you would spinach. The leaves can be added to salads, sauteed with a little butter and garlic, or juiced. The leaves contain vitamins: A, C, K, B1, B2, B3, B9, calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, manganese and copper
Just one sweet potato gives you 400% of the vitamin A you need each day!
Orange kumara has a lower glycaemic index and helps regulate blood sugar and improve insulin resistance.
Cooked kumara can be poulticed to draw out infection and heal infected wounds.
Traditionally it has been used medicinally for bowel regulation, stomach ulcers, gastro health, macular degeneration, protection of eye cells, enhancement of cognitive function, womb health, prostate health, anaemia, low mood, metabolism boosting, blood clot prevention, diabetes, anti-cancer, blood pressure and much more.
So, get eating!!!
It’s so cool that we can eat ourselves well.