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Sweet potatoes are delicate and easily damaged. [3] [4] [8] In-ground storage is used to protect the tubers while reducing the work required to set up storage facilities. In areas with reliable rainfall patterns, farmers can maintain a supply of fresh sweet potatoes for most of the year by continuous cultivation and harvesting. [3]
In addition to all these virtues, sweet potatoes are also higher in fiber than regular potatoes, boasting 3 grams per 100-gram serving (regular white potatoes only contain 1.5 grams).
Preparing raw sweet potatoes: Start by washing the sweet potatoes thoroughly to remove any dirt or debris. Peel them if you'd like, though the skin is edible. For thin, even slices, use a ...
The sweet potato became a favorite food item of the French and Spanish settlers, thus beginning a long history of cultivation in Louisiana. [105] Sweet potatoes are recognized as the state vegetable of Alabama, [106] Louisiana, [107] and North Carolina. [108] Sweet potato pie is also a traditional favorite dish in Southern U.S. cuisine.
The sweet potato plant (Ipomoea batatas) is originally from the Americas, and became widely cultivated in Central and South America by 2500 BC. [1] Sweet potato is thought to have been first grown as a food crop in central Polynesia around 1000–1100 AD, with the earliest archaeological evidence being fragments recovered from a single location on Mangaia in the southern Cook Islands, carbon ...
Years and years ago, my grandmother, the sage Southern cook of the family, said she wasn’t making sweet potato casserole The post Sweet and simple: ...
Symptoms of R. stolonifer infection of sweet potatoes include rapid development of a watery soft rot of the internal portion of the storage root with the periderm generally remaining intact. Infection can occur anywhere on the root but usually initiates at the ends due to the inevitable wounding resulting from harvest, or because a root's ...
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