Added value for farmers comes from a variety of products and ingredients made from sweetpotato root including flour, dried chips, juice, bread, noodles, candy, and pectin.

Sweetpotato roots have high nutritional value and sensory versatility in terms of taste, texture, and flesh color (white, cream, yellow, orange, purple). The varieties with high dry matter (>25%), white‐cream flesh color, and mealy firm texture after cooking are preferred by the con- sumers in the tropics.

history. Beech-Nut® has been around since 1891, making baby food since 1931 in upstate New York. Our own engineers from Beech-Nut® patented the vacuum-sealed jar process that's now the safety standard in the industry.

Amsterdam, New York About us. Beech-Nut Nutrition does more than just make real food for babies. We care deeply about championing real food for a healthier world. Established in 1891, Beech-Nut began making baby food in 1931, and today it continues in our LEED-certified facility in Amsterdam, New York.

Fresh potatoes are baked, boiled, or fried and used in a staggering range of recipes: mashed potatoes, potato pancakes, potato dumplings, twice-baked potatoes, potato soup, potato salad and potatoes au gratin, to name a few.

China China is the world's biggest producer and consumer of sweetpotato, where it is used for food, animal feed, and processing (as food, starch, and other products).

Introduction. Sweet potato originated in the tropical Americas and was grown extensively throughout the continent well before the arrival of the Europeans. It was then introduced to Europe, Africa, and Asia and is now one of the major root crops in the developing world where over 90% of the production is found.

Just one sweet potato gives you 102% of the vitamin A you need each day. This helps keep your eyes healthy as well as your immune system, your body's defense against germs. It's also good for your reproductive system and organs like your heart and kidneys.

Beech nuts are edible for humans and livestock too. For centuries they were fed to pigs in autumn to fatten them up. As a beech tree can live for hundreds of years, it can provide important habitat for deadwood specialists like hole-nesting birds and wood-boring insects.

The fruit of the beech tree, known as beechnuts or mast, is found in small burrs that drop from the tree in autumn. They are small, roughly triangular, and edible, with a bitter, astringent, or mild and nut-like taste.

Beech nuts are edible for humans and livestock too. For centuries they were fed to pigs in autumn to fatten them up. As a beech tree can live for hundreds of years, it can provide important habitat for deadwood specialists like hole-nesting birds and wood-boring insects.

Beech nuts are tasty, nutrient-dense nuts produced in the fall by beech trees (Fagus sp.). The nut husks are incredibly distinctive, and it's hard not to stop and pick up the brightly colored velcro covered husks for a closer look.

Potato chips Potato chips, the world's most popular snack food, are devoured by many. Statistics from IRI, a data analytics and market research company in Chicago, suggest that as of 17th April 2022, potato chips were the most popular type of salty snack, with sales totaling a staggering $8.9 billion.

Sweet Potatoes and Health Sweet potatoes with orange flesh are richest in beta-carotene. Sweet potatoes with purple flesh are richer in anthocyanins.

The top ranked country, China, accounted for 53.6 % of sweet potato production in the world. The top 3 countries hold a 67.6 % share while the ten largest countries some 82.2 % in 2021.

North Carolina. This state takes the number one spot, producing 61% of all U.S. sweet potatoes.