31 Foods To Help You Deal With Constipation

17. Sweet Potato

Sweet potatoes are great sweet root vegetable that almost everyone enjoys, depending on how they’re prepared of course. But regardless of how you like to eat them, sweet potatoes are chockfull of vitamins A, C and B6, as well as manganese, potassium, and lots of antioxidants that work to protect that body from free radicals, which are unstable atoms that work to damage the cells and cause illness. But it’s really the insoluble fiber known as lignin and cellulose that work to alleviate constipation.