Showing Food Sweet potato
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| Name | Sweet potato | ||||||||||
| Scientific Name | Ipomoea batatas | ||||||||||
| Description | The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is a root vegetable native to the Americas, specifically the tropical regions of Central and South America. It is widely cultivated and consumed in many countries, particularly in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific Islands. The sweet potato is a versatile food, used in various culinary dishes, such as boiling, baking, mashing, and frying. The cooked tuber has a sweet, soft, and slightly yellowish-orange color, with a sweet and nutty flavor and a sweet, earthy odor. Sweet potatoes are rich in fiber, vitamins A and C, and minerals like potassium and iron, providing several health benefits, including antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects (PMID: 38698748). The most notable chemical in sweet potatoes is starch, which makes up about 70% of its dry weight. In addition to its food value, sweet potatoes have medicinal uses, such as treating diarrhea and constipation (PMID: 24921903). A peculiar mode of preparation is the traditional Hawaiian method of cooking sweet potatoes in an underground oven, or imu, which enhances their natural sweetness. | ||||||||||
| Primary ID | FOOD00092 | ||||||||||
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| Group | Vegetables | ||||||||||
| Sub-Group | Tubers | ||||||||||
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| Superkingdom | Eukaryota | ||||||||||
| Kingdom | Viridiplantae | ||||||||||
| Phylum | Streptophyta | ||||||||||
| Class | Magnoliopsida | ||||||||||
| Order | Solanales | ||||||||||
| Family | Convolvulaceae | ||||||||||
| Genus | Ipomoea | ||||||||||
| Species | batatas | ||||||||||
| Variety | Not Available | ||||||||||
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| ITIS ID | 30764 | ||||||||||
| Wikipedia ID | Sweet Potato Pie (album) | ||||||||||
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| Content Reference | — Duke, James. 'Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases. United States Department of Agriculture.' Agricultural Research Service, Accessed April 27 (2004). — Saxholt, E., et al. 'Danish food composition databank, revision 7.' Department of Nutrition, National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark (2008). — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. 2008. USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 21. Nutrient Data Laboratory Home Page. — Shinbo, Y., et al. 'KNApSAcK: a comprehensive species-metabolite relationship database.' Plant Metabolomics. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006. 165-181. | ||||||||||