The sweet potato is one of the most versatile vegetables grown and enjoyed around the world. It can be roasted, baked, boiled, fried or steamed and eaten as a vegetable, or used in baked products such as pies and muffins. The sweet root vegetable is also a good resource for starch you can use in many other applications. For the home cook, making starch from a sweet potato is relatively simple.

About sweet potato

Despite its name, the sweet potato is not a potato. It is a member of the Morning glory plant family and is one of the oldest vegetables in the world. Although it is starchy like a potato, a sweet potato has different starch properties. Because of the versatility of its starch, the sweet potato is among the leading crops grown in developing countries.

Sweet potato starch

Starch from a sweet potato is very valuable for professional and home cooks. It can be used in place of cornstarch in recipes, or to make sweet potato noodles. The starch can also be milled into flour to make gluten-free breads and pastry dough.

Commercial uses for sweet potato starch

Sweet potato starch is used for many commercial purposes. In the food industry, commercial processors use the starch to make Asian noodles, sweeteners, beverages, citric acid and resistant starch, which provides health benefits similar to that of fiber.

With its strong adhesive qualities, sweet potato starch is also a replacement for paste. In addition, the starch from sweet potatoes is used to produce ethanol fuel.

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