An uncooked sweet potato should be very firm or hard. Soft ones have either started to dry out or could be rotting.
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no a sweet potato is a tubers
Sweet potato is a fibrous root because the potato itself is the root.
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I had never thought about using a sweet potato for salt extraction, but I always use a white potato. I think the sweet potato would flavor the foods whereas a white potato would absorb the flavor with the salt. An added note - don't leave the potato cooking until it completely cooks and gets soft or it will re-salt the food.
Potato Chips are bad for the liver, but organic, non processed, potatoes are especially good for the liver.
A sweet potato is a vegetable. Sweet potato's are considered to be a root vegetable because it grows underground. The sweet potato is pinkish orange in color.
Sweet potato reproduces by roots that can grow into new sweet potatoes. -Note that the reproduction methods of the sweet potato and potato are different.
The Kumara is the Maori sweet potato.