Search results
The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the bindweed or morning glory family, Convolvulaceae. Its large, starchy, sweet-tasting tuberous roots are used as a root vegetable. [3][4] The young shoots and leaves are sometimes eaten as greens.
1 lis 2009 · Sweet potato is thought to be native to tropical South America where it has been used as a food source for more than 5000 years. The natives called the plant batatas. This word eventually became patata in Spanish, patae in French and potato in English.
2 mar 2019 · The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is a root crop, probably first domesticated somewhere between the Orinoco river in Venezuela north to the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. The oldest sweet potato discovered to date was in the Tres Ventanas cave in the Chilca Canyon region of Peru, ca. 8000 BCE, but it is believed to have been a wild form.
1 sty 2019 · This chapter introduces the origin and production of sweet potatoes. It starts with a general description of the botanical characteristics of the plant and then introduces the origin as well as the dissemination route of this tuberous root crop.
23 sty 2013 · Sweet potatoes originated in Central and South America. But archaeologists have found prehistoric remnants of sweet potato in Polynesia from about A.D. 1000 to A.D....
26 paź 2020 · The sweet potato is considered to originate in the New World, although its precise origin is not well defined. Archaeological remains of the storage roots, or tubers, of sweet potato show it was long used as a food source by the inhabitants of Peru.
Sweet potato was introduced to Western Europe from West Indies after the first voyage of Columbus in 1492. In the 16th century, Portuguese explorers transferred sweet potato to Africa, India, South East Asia and the East Indies, while direct transfer of the plant was done by Spanish trading galleons from Mexico to the Philippines.
