Sweet Potatoes

Categories: Food
    • Native to Central America
    • Great source of vitamin A
    • Distantly related to potato
    • Domesticated about 5,000 years ago
    • North Carolina leads in US production
    • Largest grower: China
  • A Sweet Potato is a large, sweet tasting root vegetable similar to a yam. Sweet potatoes grow on herbaceous perennial vines.
  • Scientific classification

    1. Kingdom: Plantae
    2. Division: Magnoliophyta
    3. Class: Magnoliopsida
    4. Order: Solanales
    5. Family: Convolvulaceae
    6. Genus: Ipomoea
    7. Species: Ipomoea batatas

  • Nutrition Facts (Frozen)

    1. Serving: 100g
    2. Calories: 90
    3. Fat: 0.1g
    4. Protein: 1.6g
    5. Total Carbohydrate: 20.1g
    6. Dietary Fiber: 3.0g
    7. Sugar: 4.2g
    8. Vitamin C: 2.4mg
    9. Calcium: 30mg
    10. Potassium: 337mg
    11. Vitamin A: 540 IU
    12. Phosphous: 47.0mg
    13. Iron: 0.6mg
    14. Zinc: 0.3mg

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