Similar to raw carrots in color, sweet potato or sweet potato resembles pumpkin or turnip in fried form. Unusual tubers of this plant can grow up to 30 cm in length, and yam can be used both for food and as a feed crop.
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Sweet potatoes are grown in many countries of the world, but China can be called the leader in the production of sweet potato. In Russia, although there is successful experience in obtaining good crops, this crop has not yet become popular. And in vain, because sweet tubers can be used to create a variety of dishes. Sweet potato can even be eaten raw or boiled, fried, baked. Sliced tubers are often added to cereal.
In addition to tubers used in cooking and the stem of sweet potatoes, leaves. They are soaked and boiled to remove the bitter taste and use the resulting product for salads. Also made from sweet potato flour, sugar, starch, molasses, alcohol. Vegetable shoots are laid for compost or livestock feed.
Sweet potato seeds are also consumed as a coffee substitute.
Sweet potatoes - how is it useful?
Sweet potato is similar to its "brother", ordinary potatoes, only tubers. And its ground part is a vine with many lashes. One bush can reach a height of 18 cm, but the tubers weigh up to 3 kg!
The flesh of an unusual vegetable may vary in color, there are many shades of tubers - from bright orange to purple. The taste of different varieties of sweet potatoes also varies - you can find both a very sweet product and almost fresh.
The composition of sweet potatoes depends on the variety, but in any case, sweet potato has a calorie content 1.5 times higher than the usual potato. Also, this plant is rich in calcium, iron and carbohydrates. Yellow tubers contain beta-carotene, lilac tubers contain anthocyanins.