Sweet Potato vs Normal, yellow potato

Cut them into 1" cubes. Roast in oven for about 15 mins. Pull out add green beans (fresh), a little olive oil and some seasoning. Roast until potatoes start to brown (maybe 15 more mins). Pull out again, add dried cranberrys and pecans, roast for another 5 mins. Wonderful!

Yes sweet potatoes are more nutritious - full of betacarotene and vitamin C. Here in the UK sweet potatoes count towards your vegetable intake, white potatoes do not. The best way to eat them is with the skin, as you are, it contains compounds which slow digestion and reduce the GI.

Sweet potato baked for 30 mins with skin. It is my main source for carbs...

I boil and mash mine only because it's the only way my kids will eat them, so I'm good with that. We usually have them about twice per week - yummy!

I find that baked sweet potatoes are even more delicious if I rub them with olive oil before baking.

normal potatoes are nutritious also but the reason i eat sweet potatoes is because i add 30-50cals of butter and it taste heavenly where as a normal potato i would have to add 500cals of butter & sour cream to make it taste good

i steam mine in a rice cooker, mash them up, add little butter, winning.

MAKE SURE TO BUY THE ORANGE ONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I eat my sweet potatoes cut into french fry sticks and bake. I also like a tad of orange juice in my mashed sweet potatoes

I switched ten months ago and now I love sweet potatoes. I like them baked with either sour cream or cinnamon and butter. So good!

Normally I can't stand sweet potatoes. I always think I'm going to like it because I like sweet things and I like potatoes so it sounds like something I'd like but then I'm disappointed. EXCEPT for this one time my friend made mashed sweet potatoes and they were delicious. She put maple syrup, cinnamon, and cumin in them so I'd recommend finding a recipe that using those ingredients.

General consensus:

"Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew."

Love lord of the rings quote!

For a treat, I put them in the oven until they are a touch crispy then dip them in honey. It is awesome!

Wow!! I've been missing out! *blushes .. I've never had sweet potatoes before. Thanks for sharing all of your ideas.

Baked, roasted, mashed...all good ways to eat them. I switched quite some time ago. Oh my, it has been awhile. In my profile I have a picture of my sweet potato plant that I grew by accident. i thought I had used them all but found one and it had already sprouted...so I tossed it in some dirt and dang...it grew and produced.

I normally use brown sugar and cinnamon when nukeing them. Roasted ones get olive oil tossed in. Mashed get butter and a little brown sugar.

I had one with dinner tonight. I baked it and added a tbsp of butter (Smart Balance) and a little cinnamon. It was delish!

I've always thought sweet potatoes were healthier, too. It turns out that they're pretty much the same - except for the taste!

I found this information from http://www.drmirkin.com/nutrition/sweet_potatoes_not_white.html

potatoes sweet potatoes
calories 220 208
protein 5 3.5
carbs 51 49
calcium 20 56
phosphorus 115 110
iron 2.8 1
sodium 16 20
potassium 844 693
fiber 4 5
thiamin 0.22 0.14
riboflavin 0.07 0.13
niacin 3.3 1.2
vitamin C 16 49
vitamin A ? 4350

"So, as you can see, sweet potatoes are a good source of vitamin A, and have a little more vitamin C and calcium (but less iron) than white potatoes; otherwise they're pretty much equal."


I like them roasted with a little butter and brown sugar!



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The South Beach Diet doesn't recommend regular potatoes but does allow sweet potatoes in limited quantities. This is due to the way they affect your blood sugar. I never realized how you prepare a sweet potato affects its GI. From Livestrong:

A baked potato has a glycemic index of 76 relative to glucose and 108 relative to white bread, the institute states. This indicates that the blood glucose increases after eating a baked potato at 76 percent of the amount it would respond when eating the same amount of carbohydrates in pure glucose and 108 percent of the identical amount in white bread. The lower a food's glycemic index, the less it affects insulin levels and blood sugar, Harvard Health Publications notes.

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/287986-the-glycemic-index-of-potatoes/#ixzz2JEb8ERao

The way you prepare sweet potatoes makes a difference in their GI. The GI of a 150-g sweet potato, boiled with its skin for 30 minutes, is 46. That number rises to 94 if the same sweet potato is baked for 45 minutes. These dramatic differences come from the way the starches in sweet potatoes gelatinize during cooking. Foods that turn viscous, or jelly-like, in your digestive tract have a lower GI because the gelatinous substance slows the release of the nutrients in the food. Baking your sweet potatoes instead of boiling them changes the quality of their starches and transforms this root vegetable from a moderate-GI food to a high GI-food.

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/295025-the-glycemic-index-for-sweet-potatoes/#ixzz2JEbp9kVr