sweet potato super food!!!^_^

    The average baked sweet potato contains a two-day supply of Vitamin A, 42% of the RDA for Vitamin C and 10% of the RDA for iron. ·        In the Nutrition Action Healthletter from the Center for Science in the Public Interest (Washington, D.C.), sweet potatoes are rated as the super food ? #1 nutritional All-Star.

·        Sweet potatoes are one of the few low-fat, good sources of Vitamin E.

·        Sweet potatoes have more dietary fiber than oatmeal per serving.

·        During the third or fourth month, sweet potatoes can withstand moderate droughts.

·        Baked sweet potatoes are sweeter than any other mode of preparation. The texture is also smoother because slow to medium baking changes the starch to malt sugar and some of the malt sugar to caramelized sugar.

Also, sweet potatos TASTE AWSOME!! I love them!

I love sweetpotatoes! I can't eat regular potatoes anymore because they taste so boring compared to them!

ohh is that why they are sooooo good after then are baked?! I love them - I eat them with nothing on them... Thanks for the info!

When you bake them, what temp do you use in the oven? And how long? Also, do you wrap them in foil?  Or can you just "bake" them in the microwave?  I usually boil mine and then mash them with some cinnamin - like mashed potatoes but better.  However, I'd like to try baked... sorry this is a dumb question!   

Well, this is my first post, and I am here to say that I have recently discovered sweet potatoes and am absolutely in love with them!  I read Superfoods Rx, which I would highly recommend, and it has this amazing recipe in it for sweet potato fries!  Basically, you cut the sweet potato into 1/4" slices, spray with a little olive oil, and dust with salt, red pepper, paprika, and some other spice that gives it a kick (sorry, I'm at the library and can't remember), put them on a baking sheet and put them in the oven at 400 degrees for 20 minutes, flip for another 15, and when they look done, they are.  My roommate and I eat them at least once a week with our turkey or salmon burgers (those recipes also in the book).
Basically the best thing ever, and it's so good for you!

OMG sweet potatoe fries sound amazing.  I'm gonna make some of those this weekend!! Thanks Blauzwerg101!

Mmmm..just had some steamed sweet potatoes for lunch!

I was reading an article on the healtiest food site about how they are great for people who smoke or are  exposed to smoke, the Vitamin A helps w/ defencies caused by smoking which leads to bad things like emphysema.

http://whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspic e&dbid=64

i will also be making those fries:)

I bake mine on a baking sheet lined with foil.  400f oven for about 30 minutes, depending on the size of the sweet potato.  It's done when the tip of a knife slides in easily all the way.

Clairelane, do you keep the skin on when you bake it?

I recently cut some into 1/8-1/4" thick disks and saute'd them in a splash of olive oil w/ salt and pepper, beats the heck outa normal fries any day!

My wife will also use them in the old potato casserole recipe you always see at parties and big family functions. just substitute about half the diced potatos w/ diced sweet potatos. We get compliments every time.

sweet potatoes make the best frnehc fries and mashed potatoes...and everything else. yummmmy i love 'em

and now i have more reason to lveo them! lol

I microwave them for 5 minutes each side. I don't eat regular potatoes anymore.

cool i love the way the  sweet potato taste
try to sprinkle a lil cinnmon too
its yummy

Mmmm sweet taters ^__^

Cut them in small cubes, wet it, nuked it for 2-3 minutes (depending on the power of your microwave) until cooked. Topped with powder ginger (or cinnamon) + raisin + almonds.

Oh, and can even add FFCC (Fat Free Cottage Cheese) Soooooooo gooooooddd

while we are on the subject -

What is the best way to store them? I buy mine at BJ's in a net bag with about 9 small sweet potatoes in it...within a few days the skins are all wrinkly and they look like they are going rotten! I heard they aren't supposed to go into the fridge. I don't know what to do with these to keep them fresh longer.

Also, the other day I baked one - I normally eat them just plain but I decided to try something different - I used Olivio spray and a little splenda &  a sprinkle of Cinnamon! It was delicious with no guilt!

i could live on sweet potato's i have an addiction almost haha. Yay for the sweet potato! 

which are ya favorites? White sweet tators or red sweet tators? If ya in the south ya gotta know the difference. We also call them yams but they actually are not yams. They are tators.

corralled -- Aren't sweet potatoes yummy!!  Do not store sweet potatoes in the refrigerator ? the core will turn hard and develop an unpleasant taste. To keep sweet potatoes fresh, store them in a dry, cool (55 ? 60 F) place, like a pantry or garage.

Thanks rdjustice - garage is doable! I will try that  :)