The Sweet Potatoes

🌱 Chipper and sweet! These orange dolls are the number one most nutritional vegetable, with more nutrients than spinach, and even broccoli. Especially important is the high FRESH percentage of beta-carotene found in sweet potatoes. This is converted into vitamin A, which has the ability to reduce the risk of certain cancers. Sweet potatoes aren’t just cute and nutritious, but also fairly easy to grow. 🌱 FUN FACTS: By the end of the war, industrialization of farming and the rise of processed foods left sweet potatoes in the dust. U.S. production dropped by a billion pounds within two years after the war, and it bottomed out in 1980. With less than 1 billion pounds total, according to the U...View all