Sprouted sweet potatoes can be eaten, but not too much.

Sweet potato sprouting does not produce harmful ingredients like potatoes, as long as the sweet potato on the buds can be eaten, but long sprouted sweet potato nutrients and water are a large number of loss, not only taste bad, but also will still lose the value of food.

Sweet potatoes that are blackened or have dark brown skins cannot be eaten because they have a lot of bacteria. In addition, rotten sweet potatoes can not be eaten, even if the rotten place to remove, because rotten sweet potatoes will produce toxic substances fenugreek ketone, fenugreek ketone alcohol, so that sweet potatoes become hard, bitter.

Sweet potato is also known as groundnut, it and potato kinship is very far, the two are not a family of plants, potatoes are lycopene, lycopene plants are rich in a variety of alkaloids, lobelia is one of them, green tomatoes also have. And the groundnut is cyclamen family, tuber for miscellaneous food, young stem and leaves for vegetables to eat, can be brewed, extract starch, stem and leaves for high-quality fodder, so they are all can be eaten.

Sweet potato preservation methods

1, sweet potato cellar storage: before the rural areas more sweet potato cellar, sweet potato harvest after the sweet potato in order to sweet potato cellar, in the sweet potato cellar storage of sweet potatoes can be put into the next year in April and May is still fresh.

2, carton preservation method: first need to save the sweet potato selection, will have been moldy and rotten or sprouted sweet potato selection out. After the selection of sweet potatoes into a cardboard box, and then put a few apples, and then the cardboard box cover does not need to be sealed on it, so you can save sweet potatoes for a long time, so that the sweet potatoes the more you put the sweeter.

Reference: People's Daily Online - Can you still eat sweet potatoes when they sprout? Nutritional value of sweet potatoes