Eating sweet potatoes to make physical and mental health
(Chen Gao Tai share)
Master of Yi-Kwei Chen said: In 1949, the KMT retreated to Taiwan from the mainland, in order to stabilize the political situation, the first implementation of the currency reform, the Old Taiwan dollar forty thousand dollar into NT dollars. Master of Yi-Kwei Chen describe a bullock cart in Old Taiwan dollar, only a few hundred dollars in exchange for the NT, so Master of Yi-Kwei Chen’s father from between rich, overnight become like everyone else's poor households. People really not know what to do, so he angrily to bleeding and eventually died of premature death.
Master of Yi-Kwei Chen’s brother was at home in order to reduce the burden on to the Taoyuan streets after class, and they do pick feces compost, seed potatoes to the fields, until the harvest, you can supplement the food, and sweet potato leaves and can pig.
Master of Yi-Kwi Chen recalled: After elementary school, children are hungry, just like the students went to the family's garden to dig sweet potatoes to eat potatoes, and sweet potato vine will gently pull, a bunch of sweet potato was dug, a rub on manpower bite up, really sweet and crisp. There was no concept of health, first fill the stomach again, never thought potatoes are used dung as fertilizer, there are a lot of skin parasite eggs on top, even roundworm eggs can also eat into the stomach. So when children are particularly long roundworm, an itchy anus, a pull on a long, fat worms pulled out. Everything is really a very common thing.
At that time everyone was poor, can not afford to eat the whole white rice, most people regard as non-staple food and even sweet potato as a staple, and sweet potatoes are also cheaper to take the pig. That era who did not eat sweet potatoes were almost rare. Fortunately, because of the poor so that, when people who grew up eating potato, now are very good eyesight, his health, physical endurance is good, but hard, so creating Taiwan's economic miracle in the Republic of the sixties and seventies of people, mostly these eating sweet potato is grown group of people. This is because there is a very rich sweet potato starch, dietary fiber and a variety of vitamins and minerals, etc., have antioxidant effects and boost the immune system. No wonder Master of Yi-Kwei Chen’s five-developed health porridge, must included sweet potatoes, so we ate a very healthy and happy.
