Folks, Here is a write-up about Sweet Potato, a crop that has no parts wasted. Even the mature vines (and the young vines of course, if you dont eat it) can be fed to livestock. Before, the peelings were thrown away, if not fed to livestock; but now the peel is a raw material for biodegradable plastics. Japanese automakers are presently studying how to incorporate these biodegradable plastics into cars. Sweet Potato reached China via the Philippines, and now China is the number one producer of Sweet Potato in the world while the Philippines is not in the list of the top 10 producers. Do you know that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson planted Sweet Potato in their farms, and that the very first snack of the first meeting of the First Continental Congress of the 13 colonies (the future United States) that revolted against England was Sweet Potato cooked to the recipe of Thomas Jefferson? Sweet Potato came out at the very top of a total of 82 vegetables studied for nutritional and medicinal value. It can thrive and survive in extreme topographic and weather conditions. It is the plant brought by the astronauts to the Skylab for experiments in food production and air recycling. Heres more on Sweet Potato, Folks, the food of American revolutionaries and dubbed by many experts as the Food of the Century: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_potato And here are the links to the Sweet Potato Biscuits of Thomas Jefferson, the snack of the first meeting of the First Continental Congress: https://google.ph/search?q=Sweet+Potato%2C+Recipe%2C+First+Continental+Congress%2C+Thomas+Jefferson&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=fflb&gfe_rd=cr&
Posted on: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:16:08 +0000
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