What you see: Orange and white circles inside your sweet potato. Parts of the outside may be wrinkly and sunken; the sweet potato doesn’t seem like it’s
Sweet potatoes turned black after boiling
What you see: Black patches on your relatively recently boiled sweet potatoes.What it is: A harmless chemical reaction within the sweet potato. Eat or toss:
Very odd “holes” in sweet potato
What you see: Superficial holes all over your sweet potato. What it is: Most likely, some kind of insect damage. Eat or toss: The dry, healed sweet potato skin
Sweet potato with a white, “web-like” pattern
What you see: A sweet potato with white, spiderweb-like patches inside. You're particularly likely to see this in older sweet potatoes that have sprouted. What
What’s the white liquid that oozes from sweet potatoes?
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
