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.

Farmers either plant sweet potatoes on mounds or on ridges using vine cuttings. Vines are the mature stems and are taken from the shoot. A good vine cutting should be about one foot long or about ...

When the Stokes Purple sweet potato shows up in markets next week, it’s hard to say what will be more intriguing: its look, with dramatically deep purple skin and flesh, its flavor or the ...

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. -- Local farmer says purple sweet potatoes are good alternative crops and may be the next big craze. They are tasty and high in antioxidants.

Colored-flesh potatoes get their color from pigments, which are antioxidants. Purple and rose-flesh potatoes contain the pigment anthocyanin. Yellow-colored flesh varieties contain carotenoids.

Do you ever find yourself loitering in the produce aisle, internally debating the merits of yams versus sweet potatoes? At many grocery stores, they often look identical, but I’ve found that ...