On Fri, 11 May 2001 07:39:13 -0400, matesz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>If you are sticking to a raw foods paleo diet, you might not eat them.
>Grated and eaten raw they don't have the same appeal.

I like to eat sweet potatoes raw.
Jean Claude braught the information to me: they are delicious raw.
If I attempt to cook them,
often I eat a whole or half tuber raw,
before I can throw them into the water.
They are just so delicious.

btw. I understand now, that rutabaga is a kind of turnip.
Every day I eat about 1/2 pound of white raw turnip flesh as this is
available as the salad bar in the casino.
It provides a good deal of the raw stuff I need.

Yellow turnips happened to become very unpopular in Germany, as they have
been the famine food in the last wars (very big famine was common esp in WW
1). They grow in quantity everywhere and are nutritious.
AND they are a middle age food, means they are not imported from the new
world, which may be an aspect for paleodieters.

Now you can get them in good markets as a speciality.
Not very good for me, but quite ok from time to time (cooked).

Cheers,

Amadeus