Potato and Tuber Crops

Uses

• Eaten after boiling, baking and frying.
• It can be candied with syrup or used as puree.
• Tubers are canned, dehydrated and floured and are important sources of starch, glucose, pectin, Sugar syrup and industrial alcohol.
• Sweet potato is the cheapest source of calories.
• Fruity food products.
• Calories production per unit time and per unit area is highest in sweet potato among tuber and root crops.
• It is utilized in feeding live stock.
• Tender tops and leaves used as vegetable in Africa, Indonesia and Philippines.
• Vines used as fodder for live stock.
• ‘Weikang’ a product from leaves is effective in raising immune function and controlling hypercholesterolemic symptoms.