Sentences with phrase «yam contains»

One medium yam contains almost 7 grams of fiber compared to about 3 grams for a medium baked potato.

Foods like carrots and yams contain over 20 times the legal limit of arsenic, but they aren't dangerous because the arsenic is similarly bonded.

Yams contain an amount of phytate equal to or less than that in white potatoes, and sweet potatoes contain no phytate at all.

Not exact matches

I am having trouble reconciling the following: «Sweet potatoes and potatoes contain little phytic acid but yams and other starchy staples contain levels of phytate that we can not ignore.»

Yams, sweet potatoes, plantains and berries — all, by the way, foods our diet recommends and that we eat ourselves — contain some sugars which digest to a mix of glucose and fructose, while rice and potatoes contain starches which digest to glucose alone.

Keep in mind that yams are not sweet potatoes, and contain almost no vitamin A. Real yams are hard to find in the U.S., however — most stores that claim to carry them are actually just mislabeling sweet potatoes.

Wild yam is also a member of the Dioscorea genus, contains about 600 species spread throughout tropical and warm temperate regions of the world.

Wild yam produces three - sided fruits, which contain winged seeds that spread by wind.

Wild yam has been found to contain about 3.5 % diosgenin, which is is used as a source in the synthesis of a sex hormone called progesterone, as well as for the production of cortisone and other steroids prescribed in hormone replacement therapy (HRT), which benefit women with fertility problems, irregular menstrual cycles, and hormone deficiencies due to menopause and post-menopause.

There's potatoes and yams and peanuts and all sorts of things for you to eat that can contain carbohydrates.

What you want in your diet is RESISTANT STARCH, which you might want sweet potato or, if you can get it, the yam species «lesser yam», which contains more RS than digestible starch.

Limit starchy carbs, that don't contain much fiber (check to see how your blood sugar reacts to each of them)-- beets, cooked carrots, parsnips, peas, potatoes, squash (yellow squash, zucchini, acorn squash, spaghetti squash), sweet potatoes, yams.

Several species of the yam family (dioscoreaceae, also called barbasco in Central America) as well as soybeans, contain significant amounts of diosgenin, a complex molecule which converts readily and inexpensively to pregnenolone and then into a «natural» progesterone which is essentially identical to the hormone produced in a woman's body.

Yams and sweet potatoes also contain beta - carotene, a carotenoid.

MANCHESTER BY THE SEA Hebrew title: Manchester li» yad ha» yam Directed by Kenneth Lonergan With Casey Affleck, Lucas Hedges, Kyle Chandler, Michelle Williams Running time: 137 minutes Rating: R (for language throughout and some sexual content) The centerpiece of Kenneth Lonergan's drama Manchester by the Sea is a relatively short scene, a conversation between two characters that contains the most moving moments I've seen on screen in years.

While the actual recipe is a very closely guarded secret, it is known that Yunnan baiyao contains various yam roots, pseudo ginseng, sweet geranium and even ox gall bladder.

It is a proprietary formula containing multiple extracts from ginseng and several types of yam root.

In its natural state, the yam won't prevent pregnancy, but it contains a chemical that can be transformed into the active ingredient in hormonal birth control.