What you see: A milky white liquid that appears on freshly cut surfaces of raw sweet potatoes. What it is: A milky sap produced by sweet potatoes.Eat or toss:
Odd spots inside sweet potato?
What you see: Discolored, dry-looking patches and/or brown spots in sweet potato flesh, more toward the outside than the inside. The exterior of the sweet
Can you eat sprouted sweet potatoes?
What you see: Purple sprouts and stalks emerging from your sweet potato. What it is: A sprouting sweet potato. Eat or toss: Eat! A sweet potato with a small
Chew on this: The tale of the roughed up sweet potato
What you see: Holes and chewed areas on the outside of your sweet potato What it is: Love bites, likely from white grubs. Eat or toss: Peel off the damage and
Why is this sweet potato “veiny”?
What you see: Thick, raised lines, looking something like veins, on the surface of your sweet potato. What it is: Fibrous roots growing on the sweet potato. Eat
Sweet potatoes looking spotty?
What you see: Dark patches on the skin of your sweet potato. What it is: Scurf, a sweet potato fungus. Eat or toss? Peel and eat! This fungus only grows on the
