Sweet Potato Promises Hunger Relief In Developing Countries

Science Daily ^ | 11-21-2007 | American Society for Horticultural Science.

[ladyjane]

FYI

Sweet potatoes are loaded with follicle stimulating hormones. When women eat them their ovaries are stimulated to produce eggs. Some places in Africa where sweet potatoes are consumed in large quantities have a twinning rate of about 9% or so. Lots of triplets too.

Just what China and developing countries need.

Watch out this Thanksgiving when you serve sweet potato pie. Nine months from now you might have a surprise.

[Jaysun]

Not by a long stretch...

Is that I pun, sir? Oh how I do love puns.

[Red Badger]

Yes, I love sweet potato pie................

[Petronski]

Yes, Petronski, one eats the sweet potatoes for the health benefit.

Internally?

[Graybeard58]

Sweet Tater Pie! Yummy!

[Jaysun]

Oh, I’m sorry! I hope you feel better soon.

I won't. I got the pervert gene.

[null and void]

Indeed.

I root for them too...

[Petronski]

A sweet potato with butter and salt is better than any regular white potato.

Uh, I can't.

I'm childish about this, I know, but a food can either have the color of poop or the consistency of poop and I can eat it. But not both. No, not both.

[Jaysun]

Sweet potatoes with brown sugar and marshmallows are yucky.

I disagree. But there must be other ways to prepare them. Hell, I like them raw. Okay, not really. I only eat them once a year.

[Ditter]

Sweet potatoes are good, especially with butter, but then what isn’t good with butter.

[Jaysun]

Indeed.

I root for them too...

Delightful! May you and your family prosper and may you never run out of toilet paper.

[Petronski]

Sweet potatoes are loaded with follicle stimulating hormones.

If only it were true! You see, I'm really quite fantastically bald.

[Popocatapetl]

What isn’t mentioned is that with the use of GM, sweet potatoes can be made a whole lot better. Depending on the situation, their levels of protein, carbohydrate, various vitamins and minerals can be adjusted for the needs of different people.

[JRochelle]

My brother grows them in his garden. He loves them with eggs instead of regular potatoes.

[OB1kNOb]

According to my brother’s (who is a diabetic) research, the sweet potato is the best food for you health-wise that you can eat.

[Fishtalk]

Why is that?

[JRochelle]

Try eating a baked sweet potato with lots of butter and salt.

It does not look like poop. Now if you were to mash them and add other stuff you might have a point. :)

[Fishtalk]

I’ve made them with marshmallow, I’ve made them with syrup. I’ve added pecans and, of course, brown sugar.

Well hey...I tried it.

Now, pierce them with a fork a coupla times and stick them in the oven. When they are nice and soft, add a big dab of butter and know that God is in His heaven and all is right with the world.

My reproductive system works good too.

[familyop]

Sweet potato pie...yum!

[Petronski]

It does not look like poop.

You must have an excellent diet.