are sweet potatoes a vegtable.?

Answer 1

It's a vegetable
Scientific name Ipomoea batatas

As a main dish or prepared as a dessert, the sweet potato is a nutritious and economical food. One baked sweet potato (3 1/2 ounce serving) provides over 8,800 IU of vitamin A or about twice the recommended daily allowance, yet it contains only 141 calories making it valuable for the weight watcher. This nutritious vegetable provides 42 percent of the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) for vitamin C, 6 percent of the RDA for calcium, 10 percent of the RDA for iron, and 8 percent of the RDA for thiamine for healthy adults. It is low in sodium and is a good source of fiber and other important vitamins and minerals. A complex carbohydrate food source, it provides beta carotene which may be a factor in reducing the risk of certain cancers.

For the most food value, choose sweet potatoes of a deep orange color.



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Answer 2

In a simpler world, where everything has to fall into the classification of " Animal, Vegetable or Mineral" Sweet potatoes would definitely be a vegetable

1. any plant whose fruit, seeds, roots, tubers, bulbs, stems, leaves, or flower parts are used as food, as the tomato, bean, beet, potato, onion, asparagus, spinach, or cauliflower.
2. the edible part of such a plant, as the tuber of the potato.
3. any member of the vegetable kingdom; plant.

Answer 3

yes sweet potatoes are a vegetable pretty much any thing that grows in the ground is a vegetable.

Answer 4

It is actually a tuberous root that is considered to be a "root vegetable" since its underground parts are used as vegetables. The leaves and shoots of the plant are also eaten as greens.

Answer 5

Root vegetable
Eating sweet potatoes is better than potatoes

Answer 6

Yes, it's a root vegetable.

Answer 7

They certainly are. They're also known as kau kau in some parts of the world.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

yes

Answer 10

yes