Purple seedlings on the sweet potato can be eaten.

Often sweet potatoes can sprout naturally in a suitable environment without the help of nutrients in the soil and fertilizers, because sweet potatoes are rich in sugar, water and other nutrients, and can feed themselves. Sweet potatoes can be eaten after sprouting by cutting off the buds, but the taste is relatively poor at this time. In addition, if accompanied by spoilage is not recommended to eat.

Sprouting sweet potatoes means that after picking and placing for a longer period of time, the flesh of sweet potatoes is not fresh, while sweet potatoes sprouting can lead to the loss of water and sugar within the sweet potatoes. And various nutrients in sweet potatoes will also be absorbed by sweet potato sprouts.

If there are black spots and mold on the skin of sprouted sweet potatoes, it means that they are already moldy and should be avoided. Sprouting sweet potato does not produce harmful substances, but it is easy to mold in a room temperature environment for a long time.

Sweet potato storage:

Sweet potato grows in the soil, the grower in the planing sweet potato, it is easy to accidentally sweet potato, resulting in sweet potato skin will be injured, such sweet potato is not suitable for long-term preservation, you can eat in the short term.

So when we store sweet potatoes, we must choose those intact, no trauma sweet potatoes, sweet potato surface soil can not be removed, so that the sweet potatoes can play a protective role, appropriate to reduce the loss of water and nutrients inside the sweet potatoes.

The fresher the sweet potato, the lower its sweetness, the taste is relatively bland, such fresh sweet potatoes should not be directly piled together to store, because sweet potatoes also need to breathe, so as to give off heat and moisture, if piled together, it is very easy to rot and deteriorate.

So we have to spread out the fresh sweet potatoes we just bought, you can dry them properly for two or three days, and so the moisture of the water skin evaporates, and then use them for storage on it.