Sweet Potatoes

February is National Sweet Potato month. In honor of that, I thought I would tell some interesting facts about this wonderful vegetable.

• North Carolina is the #1 producer of sweet potatoes in the country, producing almost 700 million pounds of sweet potatoes in 2007.
• Sweet potatoes were grown in Peru as early as 750 BC.
• George Washington Carver is known for his peanut inventions, but he also came up with 118 different products using sweet potatoes.
• During World War I when wheat flour was running low, sweet potato flour was used to stretch supplies of wheat flour in baked goods.
• They are delicious!