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Article: Sweet potato variations.(includes recipes and storage tips)
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- October 1, 1997
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1997 Johnson Publishing Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Perhaps there's nothing more American than sweet potatoes because Native Americans were already growing sweet potatoes when Columbus came to America in 1492. Today, we tend to use the term "sweet potato" and "yam" interchangeably, but the two root vegetables are not much alike. A sweet potato is smooth-skinned, orange-fleshed, high n beta carotene and filled with potassium, vitamins A,C and B-6. In fact, one medium sweet potato has about four times the daily recommended allowance of vitamin A and almost half the recommendation for vitamin C. All of this with no fat, no cholesterol and only about 118 calories per potato.
A true yam in more common in Latin ...