Sweet Potato Time
Posted on June 13, 2008
I love sweet potatoes. I love the taste, I love the color, and I love the nutrition. Sweet potatoes contain β-carotene, vitamin C, fiber, and are lower in calories than regular white potatoes. They are also lower on the glycemic index. The glycemic index (GI) is a measure of how foods affect blood sugar. A lower GI value means a food will give small but steady increases in blood sugar which is better than a rapid, immediate increase in blood sugar.1
There are lots of different ways to enjoy sweet potatoes but oven roasted sweet potatoes are a favorite dinner side dish in my house. It is so easy to make that even I can manage to prepare them with out messing it up. Here’s how I do it:
1. Pre heat oven to 375. Peel the sweet potatoes (one sweet potato is usually enough for two people).
2. Cut them into bite-sized cubes.
3. Put cubed sweet potatoes into a Pyrex glass baking dish (or something similar).
4. Put in a little bit of olive oil (not too much, but enough so the potatoes won’t stick to the dish).
5. Add some Italian seasoning or any other spices you want. Mix it all up so potatoes are evenly coated.
6. Cover dish with foil and bake at 375 degrees for 35-45 minutes. I will usually pull them out of the oven to give them a quick stir after 20 minutes. When they are soft, they are done.
One medium, baked sweet potato contains about 104 calories, 2g protein, 24g carbohydrate, and about 4g fiber.2
Enjoy the sweet potatoes.
- Walter C. Willett, Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), 47. [↩]
- Martha Schueneman, The Calorie, Carbohydrate, and Cholesterol Directory (Edison, NJ: Chartwell Books, 2004), 136-37. [↩]
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