Sweet potatoes are a healthy and nutritious staple food with a sweet and delicious taste. Research has shown that regular consumption of sweet potatoes can help prevent chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. Additionally, sweet potato leaves also offer various health benefits, including anti-cancer and antioxidant properties. Sweet potatoes, often referred to…
4 Major Benefits of Sweet Potatoes: Preventing Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease
Baked Satsuma Is Sweet Potato Perfection
In Okinawa, Japan, the Tokko Shrine honors a sailor named Maeda Riemon for bringing sweet potatoes to Japan in 1705. He had encountered this plant—which isn’t actually a potato—in the Ryukyu Islands of the South China Sea, where locals called it “Chinese potato.” Riemon was so impressed by the flavor that he brought tubers home…
Air Fryer Sweet Potato Fries
It’s officially sweet potato season! And do you know what that means? It’s the perfect time to pick up these seasonal potatoes at your local grocery store or farmer’s market and start incorporating them into your daily meals. There are a few different ways to cook a sweet potato, but our personal favorite is air fryer…
Sweet Potatoes for the Weekday Win!
Sweet potatoes, once relegated to holiday meals, now feature weekly on casual supper menus. From baked to mashed to fries, this potato graces our dinner table at least once a week. The ubiquitous orange-fleshed tubers, also known as Jewel and Garnet, are packed with beta-carotene, vitamins A and C, calcium, potassium, iron and fiber. Purple-fleshed…
How to Bake Sweet Potatoes, Two Ways
If you like your sweet potatoes golden brown and crispy, roasting them in the oven is the most effective cooking method. But with so many different baking techniques to choose from, it’s hard to decide which method is the quickest, easiest and tastiest. The first step is to zero in on the reason you’re using…
The Best Way to Cook Sweet Potatoes
How does sweet potato baking compare to boiling and steaming, and should we eat the skin?
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