Purple sweet potatoes can be cooked and utilized in much the same way that orange sweet potatoes can. They can be mashed, baked, roasted, sautéed, or even fried.

Purple sweet potatoes contain a little vitamin A, but are loaded with antioxidants. ... One sign sweet potato plants are done growing is when the leaves and vines turn yellow.

At a concentration of 0.003 mg/ml, extracts from purple sweet potato leaves inhibited the growth of lung cancer cells by 37 per cent and breast cancer cells by 76 per cent.

By Prof. Kirthi Tennakone The sweet potato is probably the oldest cultivated crop. Native to tropical America, Peruvians grew it 8,000 years ago. Colombus introduced sweet potatoes to Europe; later ...

Purple sweet potato roast from Anita Jaisinghani. Carolina Ayala/Contributor. ... (leaves and stems), garlic, serrano pepper, sesame seeds, lemon juice, salt and 1/4 cup of water.

Sweet potato whitefly can be controlled with Year Round Spray Oil (spray under the leaves in early morning when it’s cool) or bifenthrin. In our area, these caterpillars are fairly common, but ...

Unlike All-Purple sweet potato leaf extracts, which exhibited a lower EC50 value for the breast cancer cell line, Carolina Ruby sweet potato leaf and stem extracts exhibited a lower EC50 value for ...