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. Jaymun

    Good ways to have sweet potato?

    Sweet potato is one of my favorite foods, and it's so incredibly healthy that I try to eat it all the time. The problem is I'm getting bored with how I eat it, usually I either just mash it like regular mashed potatoes, or bake it and cut it open, sometimes adding some butter and/or cinnamon...
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