CHAPTER III 

 UTILIZATION OF TEE SWEET POTATO 



The most important use of the sweet potato is as 

 a food for man, either in its original form or as manu- 

 factured into a flour or starch. It may also have an 

 important place in the rations for live-stock. 



T. E. Keitt ^ of South Carolina gives the chemical 

 analysis of the sweet potato vine (average of four 

 varieties) and tubers (average fourteen varieties) re- 

 spectively ta be : 



Table VI. — Analysis of Sweet Potato Tubees and Vines. 



Attention is called to the fact that the nitrogen-con- 

 tent of the sweet potato occurs in the readily available 

 form of albuminoids which render this food element 

 capable of full utilization in digestion processes. This 

 is an important item to be considered in calculating the 

 comparative food value of this crop with that of some 

 other crops which, although containing a higher percent- 



1 Bull. 146, S. C. Exp. Sta., 190^. 



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