{"id":284650,"date":"2025-11-14T20:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/284650\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T20:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:08:07","slug":"6-scientifically-proven-foods-that-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/284650\/","title":{"rendered":"6 scientifically proven foods that work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sweet potatoes are rich in fiber, complex carbohydrates, and various micronutrients like potassium. Sweet potatoes are also a staple food in Okinawa, Japan, one of the world\u2019s longest-lived populations, where people traditionally consumed purple and orange sweet potatoes daily.<br \/>NIH <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC12121514\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">study <\/a>suggests that sweet potatoes are rich in bioactive compounds such as beta-carotene, anthocyanins, flavonoids, and phenolic acids, which have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. <br \/>Tips: <br \/>Enjoy baked, steamed, roasted, or mashed, avoid deep frying<br \/>Choose purple or orange varieties for the highest antioxidants<br \/>Pair with healthy fats to boost carotenoid absorption <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sweet potatoes are rich in fiber, complex carbohydrates, and various micronutrients like potassium. Sweet potatoes are also a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[19503,64,63,164479,137,6001,97786,532,164480,61042],"class_list":["post-284650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-anti-aging","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-foods-for-healthy-aging","tag-health","tag-healthy-foods","tag-natural-remedy","tag-nutrition","tag-scientifically-proven-foods","tag-slow-down-aging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}