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Article: Sugar tatties: a team of researchers at the National Institute of Crop Science has developed a sweet potato cultivar that doesn't need to be cooked over hot rocks for hours on end to come out tasting sweet and scrumptious. Top sweet potato breeder Nakatani Makoto explains.(Scitech News)(Quicksweet)
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- July 1, 2003
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MANY health benefits of eating sweet potatoes have recently come to light and consumers are ranking the sweet potato high as a health food. International organizations worldwide have indicated that sweet potatoes are important sources of nutrition for the human diet.
For the busy modern Japanese, however, sweet potatoes are not considered a convenient food to cook. Ask a Japanese person what the easiest way to prepare sweet potatoes is and they will tell you to steam or bake them. Either way it will take an hour or so on the stove or in the oven before they get really sweet and delicious. So with today's hectic lifestyles, most people don't have the chance to fix ...