Sweet Potatoes with Ginger and Cinnamon - Healthy Food Tip and Recipe

Today's Recipe
If you don't know what to serve for dinner tonight ...
If you want a great tasting vegetable that helps fill you up without filling you out, sweet potatoes are for you. Bright orange sweet potatoes not only add color to your table but provide immune boosting carotenoids to your Healthiest Way of Eating.
Sweet Potatoes with Ginger and Cinnamon
Prep and Cook Time: 25 minutes
Ingredients:

• 6 cups sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1-inch pieces
• 1/2 medium onion, cut in half and sliced thin
• 4 medium cloves garlic, chopped
• 1-1/2 TBS finely minced fresh ginger
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 TBS honey
• 1 TBS + 1 cup chicken or vegetable broth
• salt and white pepper to taste

Directions:

1. Slice onions and chop garlic and let sit for 5 minutes to enhance their health-promoting properties.
2. Cut yams into 1" cubes.
3. Heat 1 TBS broth in a 12-inch or larger stainless steel skillet. Healthy Sauté onion over medium heat for 3 minutes, stirring frequently. Add garlic and ginger and continue to sauté for another minute, stirring constantly.
4. Add sweet potatoes, cinnamon, honey, and 1 cup broth. Mix and simmer over low heat covered for about 15 minutes, or until sweet potatoes are tender. Season with salt and pepper.

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Healthy Food Tip

Are B vitamins lost when making bread?

Yes, a certain amount of B vitamins is lost when bread is baked in the oven. However, the baking of bread is not a practice I would worry much about when it comes to B vitamin loss. I would be far more concerned about the type of flour that was used to make the bread! For example, 100% whole grain wheat flour contains three to four times as much vitamin B2 and vitamin B3 as processed wheat flour ("processed" in this case meaning bleached and non-enriched 60% extraction wheat flour). It also contains about five times as much vitamin B3 and seven times as much vitamin B6. Even though the total amounts of B vitamins in whole grain flours are not astronomically high to begin with, they are definitely significant from a health standpoint and can play an important role in a person's Healthiest Way of Eating.