The water yam, also known as wild yam which is packed with a lot of nutrients that can help boost human health by a significant margin. Ojojo offers a delightful contrast of textures, with a crispy ...

Sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) are usually harvested about 100 to 110 days after planting or when the plant’s leaves start to yellow. Though, sweet potatoes can continue to grow after their leaves ...

A UC Davis graduate student traveled to Ethiopia recently to try to convince farmers and other residents to adopt a new food source: sweet potato leaves. The leaves are commonly used as livestock feed ...

Ah, it's Thanksgiving time. As someone who loves to cook — actually, as someone who loves to hang out in the kitchen wherever I go — this is a wonderful time of year. On Thanksgiving morning I’m up ...

Sweet potatoes are easy to grow, but they require heat and a long growing season -- more than the amount of time listed on planting instructions. That was the conclusion drawn by the Master Gardeners ...

PRETTY IS AS PRETTY DOES: Sweet potatoes not only come in all kinds of shapes and sizes, but also in a rainbow of colors and flavor profiles. Even the leaves can be cooked and eaten like spinach and ...

Vegetable completists who devour every edible part of the plant, from beet green to garlic scape, will relish the sweet-potato leaf, a late-summer harbinger of the iconic Thanksgiving tuber. Try them ...

Sweet potatoes could be the new frontier in fighting breast and lung cancer according to a new study in the BMC Complementary ...