6 years old son buy them as a treat
> >at
> >our local organic food coop .he can eat 3 quarter of an average size one
.


 >  Aren't they full of sugar and starch?  Kim

yes but contrary to sweet fruits it is very hard to go beyong one's need for
it . the starch is very distastefull once body needs are met .( most
likelley regulated by the amount of amylase secreted )
In fact ,instinctos use the ex of a sweet potato how humans can be
trapped( evolved into if we see it as an improvement ) into cooking .
if by a forest fire or just curiosity a sweet potatoes have been  cooked and
eaten by a group of hominids , as the denaturation blurr the instinctive
feedbak  they will eat more than they needed . cooking turn the starch into
sugars as the enzyme amylase will do when eaten raw
the next day when they ate their raw sweet potatoes they were not appealling
at all because bodies were overwhelmed allready by the nutrients in  it and
so got an instinctive stop on it . ..
quicklly they learned that cooking was bypassing this instinctive barrier as
the cooked potatoe taste allways sweet .

so sugar is not the problem per se as long the availability of the raw sugar
is not artificial and the instinctive regulation work because non denatured
.
jean-claude