FOB (removethis) wrote:

As for tubers I never eat regular potatoes but do eat sweet potatoes, they
are a bit lower carb and have lots of wonderful nutrients in them.

I also have better portion control with sweet potatoes. For me regular
potatoes are a mild slippery clope food. I can eat them in limited
amounts but it's easy for me to eat them a couple of days in a row then
start really wanting them. When I have a sweet potato it's something I
find easy to limit. Maybe the carb load, maybe something else.

On rec.gardens.edible someone recently mentioned that their leaves can
be eaten as a salad. My reaction was - Huh? Potatoes are in the
nightshade family so their leaves are considered toxic. I looked up
sweet potatoes. Sure enough they are not in the nightshade family.
They happen to look like potatoes but they are very distant in the tree
of life.

I don't know anyone who's ever mentioned eating sweet potato leaves but
I now know it can be done. Neat trivia.