Sweet Potatoes are a good source of dietary fiber, vitamin A, vitamin C, thiamin, riboflavin, vitamin B6, folate, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium and manganese." This stellar vitamin profile puts them in the same league nutritionally as spinach and collards.
See the chart in the web link 'Wikipedia - Sweet Potato' to the left.
The sweet potato is a part of the root of the sweet potato plant.
The sweet potato is an underground tuberous root.
Everything under the skin, though some people will also eat the skin. As with our usual potatoes, only the tubers can be eaten.
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The part of the sweet potato plant that you eat is the root. The entire root is edible.
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Although the orange colored sweet potato you see in grocery stores grows underground as a tuberous root, the part of the plant above ground grows a white flower with a purple center because it is a dicotyledonous plant.
Although the orange colored sweet potato you see in grocery stores grows underground as a tuberous root, as a dicotyledonous plant, the part of the plant above ground has a flower--in this case, it is white with a purple center.
On a sweet potato slip or plant, there are two simple parts: the roots and the bud or the green part that grows above ground. The roots are obvious.
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A sweet potato grows in the ground as a tuber. It is a vine plant.
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