Zaoqiang sweet potato

Zaoqiang sweet potato is a specialty of Zaoqiang County, Hengshui City, Hebei Province. Jujube-strong sweet potato tubers are neat and uniform, with long potato shape and smooth surface. The skin color of tubers is yellow, with rich vitamins and carotene, and the sugar content can reach 30%. It can be eaten fresh and cooked, and its products are deeply loved by consumers. Sweet potato is a famous agricultural product with local characteristics in Zaoqiang County, Hengshui City, Hebei Province. The cultivated variety is Jiedu Beijing 553. This variety has neat and uniform tubers, long potato shape, smooth surface, yellow skin color, high vitamin and carotene content, and the sugar content can reach 30%. It can be eaten fresh and cooked, and its products are favored by consumers. In addition to eating, it is also an important raw material for manufacturing alcohol and starch in industry, and it can also be used to manufacture lactic acid, monosodium glutamate, citric acid, starch, etc., and can also be processed into various vermicelli and vermicelli, etc., which has a very wide range of uses. This product has been rated as a famous agricultural product in Hebei Province for many times. In recent years, under the correct guidance of Zaoqiang county government, Dongfang brand virus-free sweet potato has developed into a production base with Xiao Jang Jin as the center and six surrounding towns driven by radiation, covering an area of 28,000 mu. And advanced planting and management techniques have been implemented, so that the yield has gradually increased, from the original 1500 kg to more than 3000 kg now, and the income per mu can generally reach about 1500 yuan. Planting sweet potatoes has become one of the main ways for local farmers to increase their income. Virus-free sweet potato is smooth and even in shape and sweet and smooth in taste. It contains protein, fat, carbohydrate, crude fiber, carotene, thiamine, riboflavin, nicotinic acid, ascorbic acid, ash, calcium, phosphorus and iron, and has the effects of invigorating spleen and benefiting qi, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, relaxing bowels, resisting cancer, reducing plasma cholesterol, preventing arteriosclerosis, resisting aging, protecting eyesight and improving human immunity. Therefore, it is listed as the first anti-cancer fruit and vegetable in the medical field, and nutritionists call it "longevity food".
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