Can sweet potatoes germinate and eat?

Although the germinated sweet potato can be eaten, if the skin is brown or black spots, it can't be eaten because it is polluted by black spot bacteria. The toxin released by Alternaria alternata contains sweet potato ketone and sweet potato ketone alcohol, which makes sweet potato hard and bitter and highly toxic to human liver. Although this toxin is boiled and baked, its biological activity will not be destroyed.

The relationship between sweet potato and potato is very distant. They are not plants of the same family at all. Potatoes belong to Solanaceae, and Solanaceae plants are rich in many alkaloids. Solanum nigrum is one of them, and so are green tomatoes. Sweet potato belongs to Convolvulaceae, its root tuber is coarse cereals, its tender stems and leaves are edible vegetables, which can be used for brewing wine and extracting starch, and its stems and leaves are high-quality feed, which can be eaten.

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Nutritional value of sweet potato

Anti-cancer: Eating sweet potatoes often helps to maintain normal folic acid levels. Low folic acid content in the body will increase the risk of cancer. Sweet potato has high dietary fiber content, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and prevent constipation and colorectal cancer.

Heart health care: Sweet potato is rich in potassium, beta-carotene, folic acid, vitamin C and vitamin B6, all of which help to prevent cardiovascular diseases. Japanese scholars also found that sweet potatoes contain collagen and mucopolysaccharide, which can reduce the content of total cholesterol in blood and prevent arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease.

Prevention of emphysema: Eating sweet potatoes rich in vitamin A can prevent emphysema and significantly reduce the incidence.

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