Brimming with health benefits and inherent natural deliciousness, sweet potatoes deserve to be on the table all year round.<\/p>\n
Click To Tweet<\/a><\/p>\n Sweet potatoes are not a new-fangled fad–they have been eaten and loved for centuries.<\/p>\n In fact, these spuds go back 5,000 years to when they were first \u2018domesticated\u2019 in Central America.<\/p>\n And they may have been around even longer than that–there is some proof that sweet potatoes existed as far back as 8000 B.C.!<\/p>\n And today they\u2019re popular everywhere. From Uganda to Rwanda, India to Vietnam.<\/p>\n The sweet potato even reigns as the state vegetable of North Carolina!<\/p>\n For starters, sweet potatoes are super easy and versatile to cook. You can quite literally prepare them any way you want: roasted, baked, steamed, saut\u00e9ed, mashed. They can be eaten on their own or as part of a complete dish: curry, wok or casserole.<\/p>\n Second of all, sweet potatoes make a welcome change from a \u2018regular\u2019 potato–adding a fresh original taste to the meal.<\/p>\n Finally, they are packed with vitamin A and, like the regular potato are good sources of fiber<\/a>.<\/p>\n With their super dose of healthful, nourishing nutrients, sweet potatoes are a delightful addition to any plant-based diet.<\/p>\nThe Sweet Potato Day\u2013A History<\/h3>\n
But What Makes the Sweet Potato so Great?<\/h3>\n