I see Ray PEat does not like sweet potatoes and I heard him say in his last interview that sweet potatoes are high in beta carotene and that fiber in it would give you gas. I still think that only the orange sweet potatoes will have beta carotene and the light color variety wont.
http://www.beyondblackwhite.com/season- ... -potatoes/
But it seems everybody knows only the orange version and not the white version of sweet potatoes and I could not find a nutritional analysis of white sweet potatoes. also the fiber content of sweet potatoes is not much defferent than regular potatoes.
But when I was researching I found that sweet potatoes are high in oxalate, not so much per gram basis but because the starch content is like 18/100 g (so a lot of it has to be eaten) it will be in the category of heavy oxalate foods. The thing that kind of made me worry it seems that sweet potatoes can be infested with mold that could be there even if its not visible thats deadly. I could not find anything detailed about this mold issue??
http://perfecthealthdiet.com/2011/01/wh ... -potatoes/
http://www.beyondblackwhite.com/season- ... -potatoes/
But it seems everybody knows only the orange version and not the white version of sweet potatoes and I could not find a nutritional analysis of white sweet potatoes. also the fiber content of sweet potatoes is not much defferent than regular potatoes.
But when I was researching I found that sweet potatoes are high in oxalate, not so much per gram basis but because the starch content is like 18/100 g (so a lot of it has to be eaten) it will be in the category of heavy oxalate foods. The thing that kind of made me worry it seems that sweet potatoes can be infested with mold that could be there even if its not visible thats deadly. I could not find anything detailed about this mold issue??
http://perfecthealthdiet.com/2011/01/wh ... -potatoes/