sweet potatoes

The sweet potato is a large, starchy, sweet-tasting, tuberous root used as a vegetable. The young shoots and leaves are sometimes also eaten as greens.
The sweet potato or sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas) is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the bindweed or morning glory family, Convolvulaceae. Its large, starchy, sweet-tasting, tuberous roots are used as a root vegetable. The young shoots and leaves are sometimes eaten as greens. The sweet potato is distantly related to the common potato (Solanum tuberosum), both being in the order Solanales. Although the darker sweet potatoes are often referred to as "yams" in parts of North America, the species is not closely related to true yams. Cultivars of the sweet potato have been bred to bear tubers with flesh and skin of various colors.

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  1. GadgetGuy

    Recipe Hot Sweet Potato Soup.

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  2. GadgetGuy

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  3. medtran49

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  4. flyinglentris

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  5. Morning Glory

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  6. pinkcherrychef

    Recipe Sweet potato porridge

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  7. epicuric

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  8. ElizabethB

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  9. Morning Glory

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  10. SatNavSaysStraightOn

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  11. SatNavSaysStraightOn

    Recipe Vegan Sweet Potato and Ginger Soup

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  12. SatNavSaysStraightOn

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  13. Caribbean girl

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  14. Morning Glory

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  15. cupcakechef

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  16. SatNavSaysStraightOn

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  17. cupcakechef

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  18. C

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  19. Morning Glory

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  20. V

    Recipe Indian Potato Pie

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