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**Title:** Healthy Desserts with Yam and Chocolate
**Key Points:**
1. **Problem with traditional desserts:** Most recipes contain high sugar and starch, leading to glucose spikes, weight gain, and chronic inflammation.
2. **Solution:** Replace conventional starch with **yam**, which contains **resistant starch** that:
* Isn't easily digested by the body
* Serves as prebiotic food for good gut bacteria
* Reduces glucose spikes
3. **Yam-Chocolate Dessert:**
* Use 300g of a specific type of yam (e.g., "cara" in the southeast region)
* Cook, peel, and blend with:
+ Alkaline cocoa powder
+ Sweetener (e.g., brown sugar)
+ Vanilla (optional)
+ Vegetable milk (or water)
4. **Benefits:**
* Delicious and healthy dessert
* Sustainable (vegan, no animal derivatives)
* Supports gut health and reduces chronic disease risk
5. **Call to Action:**
* Try the recipe
* Share with friends
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**About the Author**
1. The author's name is Camila Vitorino.
2. Camila Vitorino is a biologist graduated from USP (Universidade de São Paulo).
**Health and Nutrition**
3. Most dessert recipes contain a lot of sugar.
4. Sugar can be replaced with sweeteners or fruits in recipes.
5. Starch is often used for consistency in desserts.
6. Starch is broken down into glucose in the body.
7. Consuming high amounts of starch can lead to glucose spikes.
8. Glucose spikes can increase the predisposition to type 2 diabetes, weight gain, and chronic inflammation.
9. Chronic inflammation can lead to conditions like hypertension and cancer.
**Yams**
10. Yams contain a type of starch known as resistant starch.
11. Resistant starch cannot be easily digested by the body.
12. Resistant starch serves as food for good bacteria in the intestine.
13. Yams are a pre-biotic food, aiding intestinal health.
14. The digestion of yam starch is slow, reducing glucose spikes.
15. In Brazil, "yam" refers to several species, with "cara" being a specific type used in the southeast.
**Recipe and Preparation**
16. Approximately 300 grams of yam can be used for the recipe (with some flexibility in quantity).
17. The yam can be cooked through pressure cooking or regular cooking.
18. Cooking time for pressure cooking is about 20 minutes.
19. After cooking, the yam skin can be easily removed.
20. The recipe combines cooked yam with cocoa powder, a sweetener (like brown sugar), vanilla (optional), and vegetable milk.
**Sustainability and Additional Benefits**
21. The dessert is vegan, containing no animal derivatives.
22. Vegan desserts help reduce deforestation, water usage, and ocean pollution associated with animal farming.
23. This sustainable dessert also helps animals.