Ingredient

Sweet Potato

vegetable

Source & License

Source
Foodgeist original
License
proprietary
Verification
Cerebrus 4-layer pipeline

Research Evidence

What science says

compound effect

SP roots were found to contain acrylamide precursors, that is, 4.17 mg/g glucose and 5.05 mg/g fructose, and 1.63 mg/g free asparagine.

acrylamide precursors are found in sweet potato roots

ingredient property

In contrast to the sweet potato and yam flours and starches, with larger particle size distributions from 28.3 and 251 μm

sweet potato flour has larger particle size distribution from 28.3 and 251 μm

Physico-chemical properties of flours and starches from selected commercial tubers avai...2009
compound effect

SP chips that were fried in a lower degree of unsaturation oils contained a lower acrylamide concentration (1443 μg/kg), whereas those fried with higher degree of unsaturated oils contained a higher acrylamide concentration (2019 μg/kg).

acrylamide concentration is higher in sweet potato chips fried in higher degree of unsaturated oils

nutrition finding

Based on a sample of 1,321 observations of children under the age 5, biofortification reduced diarrhea prevalence by 11.4 percentage points (95% CI 2.0–20.8)

biofortification with orange sweet potatoes reduced diarrhea prevalence

nutrition finding

and by 18.9 percentage points in children under the age three (95% CI 6.6–68.3).

biofortification with orange sweet potatoes reduced diarrhea prevalence

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