Sweet Potatoes

Scientific Name: Ipomea batatus

Sweet potato or rangaloo is a delicious root vegetable. Sweet potato is a nutritious food. Sometimes poor people eat sweet potato instead of bread or rice. Sweet potato is of considerable importance for use as a complementary food on food problem days. These potatoes can be eaten at home for a long time. Sweet potatoes are eaten boiled or roasted and sometimes curried. Boiled sweet potato is mixed with flour and eaten as bread or fried pita. Sweet potatoes can be cut into thin rounds, dried in the sun and ground in a mill to make flour. This flour can be used to make bread, biscuits and various delicacies. Currently good alcohol is being made from sweet potatoes. Sweet potato plants are good animal feed. This crop is cultivated as a cover crop for drought in sloping land. Its plants quickly cover the ground. As a result, weed growth and land erosion are prevented.

It is most likely that South America is the original home of sweet potato and from there its cultivation spread to different parts of the world. During the Bharatvarsha, sweet potato is grown in large areas in states like West Bengal, Bihar, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu etc. Sweet potato is widely cultivated in Howrah, Hooghly, 24 Parganas (North and South), Nadia and Midnipur districts of West Bengal. Sweet potato is a short-duration crop and cultivation of this crop as a companion crop, especially when planting sugarcane, gives good yields at low cost. Sweet potato seedlings (cuttings) are planted twice in West Bengal. Seedlings are planted for the first time in the month of Baisakh-Jaishtha and for the second time in the month of Kartik-Agrahayana.

#  Nutritive value of sweet potato

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1. Blood pressure

Sweet potatoes reduce high blood pressure. Because the antioxidant power of the vitamin protects the arteries from damage. sweet The potassium present in potatoes lowers blood pressure.

2.Diabetes

Sweet potato relieves complications of polyuria such as nerve and eye damage. In addition, sweet potatoes control blood sugar levels.

3.Postrate cancer

Eating sweet potato regularly does not cause prostate cancer

4. Breast cancer

Eating sweet potatoes regularly reduces the risk of breast cancer.

5. Gastro-intestinal relief

Eating sweet potato or sweet potato leaf juice helps reduce stomach inflammation, nausea and bloating.

6.Fever

Consumption of sweet potato leaf juice reduces the incidence of fever. However, it has not been tested and definitively decided.

7.Asthma

Sweet potato is a very effective ingredient to cure asthma.

8. Bronchitis

Sweet potato relieves bronchial inflammatory disorders.

9. Arthritis

Vitamin-carotene, magnesium, zinc and vitamin-B complex in sweet potato make sweet potato useful in treating arthritis. Applying hot water after boiling sweet potatoes in the evening and morning relieves the pain.

10. Stomach ulcer

Vitamin-C, beta-carotene, potassium and calcium in sweet potatoes are very effective in healing stomach ulcers. Constipation is removed by eating sweet potatoes. As a result, stomach ulcers cannot occur.