Sweet potato -solution to malnutrition in Ghana

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• HANNIBAL(Blessed by God) 12 years ago

  Sweet potatoes are some of the best food you can ever eat. It is very nutritious.

  Sweet potatoes are some of the best food you can ever eat. It is very nutritious.

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• KK 12 years ago

  The info in this article is good but it is not an opinion piece. It is a news item.
  
  Anyway, sweep potato is sweet paaa especially the fried one. You can also roast it. But we must make more diverse use of it. One should be ...
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  The info in this article is good but it is not an opinion piece. It is a news item.
  
  Anyway, sweep potato is sweet paaa especially the fried one. You can also roast it. But we must make more diverse use of it. One should be able to ask for pommes frittes made from sweet potato rather than ordinary potato and other chips too. Why not sweet potato flour and starch. The research institute must not only find ways of making varieties of sweet potato but also how to prepare them.
  
  But there are two disadvantages with sweet potato
  
  1. they are more difficult to grow than ordinary potatoes
  
  2. one gets easily fed up on boiled sweet potatoes. If you eat one or two slices, you don't want to eat more even though you're not really belly-full...

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• American 12 years ago

  I understand this article refers to the American orange sweet potato and not the Caribbean yellow or white variety.
  
  "... one gets easily fed up on boiled sweet potatoes."
  
  Yes, (orange) sweet potatoes made
  sweet are clo ...
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  I understand this article refers to the American orange sweet potato and not the Caribbean yellow or white variety.
  
  "... one gets easily fed up on boiled sweet potatoes."
  
  Yes, (orange) sweet potatoes made
  sweet are cloying and indigestible. And that's the African way -- you don't put cinnamon and marshmallows and sprinkles on it like Americans do...
  
  Sweet potatoes taste best when prepared in the same manner as white potatoes. They also go really well with fish. My only complaint is the time it takes to bake/roast them.

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