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Article: Some sweet facts about sweet potatoes.(Food)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- November 5, 2008
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TheyEre sweet, but with no artificial sugar, packed with vitamin A (one large contains more than 34,000 IU), containing almost as much potassium as bananas (422 mg vs. 542 mg) and a good-for-you dose of dietary fiber (6 g per 6 ounces). Hard to believe this describes a simple sweet potato.
As the season of the sweet potato quickly descends upon us, letEs take a moment to consider sweet potatoes.
Some folks use the term yam and sweet potato interchangeably, but they are not the same. The sweet potato (Ipomoea balatas) is the root of a vine in the morning glory family; where a yam (Dioscorea species) is the tuber of a tropical vine.
Yams have more calories than ...