Editing Sweet potato (section)

====Africa====
{{Cleanup lang|section|date=July 2023}}[[File:A seller peeling a sweet potato.jpg|thumb|A seller peeling a sweet potato in [[Ghana]]]]
''Amukeke'' (sun-dried slices of root) and ''inginyo'' (sun-dried crushed root) are a staple food for people in northeastern Uganda.<ref name="Abidin, 2004">
:{{Cite thesis |last=Abidin |first=P.E. |title=Sweetpotato breeding for northeastern Uganda: Farmer varieties, farmer-participatory selection, and stability of performance |type=PhD Thesis |page= 152 pp|year=2004 |publisher=[[Wageningen University]]|location=The Netherlands |isbn=90-8504-033-7}}
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:Well cited including by Mwanga et al., 2010.
</ref> ''Amukeke'' is mainly served for breakfast, eaten with peanut sauce. ''Inginyo'' is mixed with cassava flour and [[tamarind]] to make ''atapa''. People eat ''atapa'' with smoked fish cooked in peanut sauce or with dried [[cowpea]] leaves cooked in peanut sauce. ''Emukaru'' (earth-baked root) is eaten as a snack anytime and is mostly served with tea or with peanut sauce. Similar uses are also found in [[South Sudan]].

The young leaves and vine tips of sweet potato leaves are widely consumed as a vegetable in West African countries (Guinea, [[Sierra Leone]] and [[Liberia]], for example), as well as in northeastern Uganda, East Africa.<ref name="Abidin, 2004"/> According to FAO leaflet No. 13 – 1990, sweet potato leaves and shoots are a good source of vitamins A, C, and B<sub>2</sub> (riboflavin), and according to research done by A. Khachatryan, are an excellent source of [[lutein]].

In [[Kenya]], Rhoda Nungo of the home economics department of the [[Ministry of Agriculture (Kenya)|Ministry of Agriculture]] has written a guide to using sweet potatoes in modern recipes.<ref>{{cite book |title=Nutritious Kenyan Sweet Potato Recipes |editor=Nungo, Rhoda A. |publisher=[[Kenya Agricultural Research Institute]] |location=[[Kakamega, Kenya]]|year=1994}}</ref> This includes uses both in the mashed form and as flour from the dried tubers to replace part of the wheat flour and sugar in baked products such as cakes, chapatis, mandazis, bread, buns and cookies. A nutritious juice drink is made from the orange-fleshed cultivars, and deep-fried snacks are also included.

In [[Egypt]], sweet potato tubers are known as {{Lang|ar-latn|batata}} ({{Lang|ar|{{Script|Arabic|بطاطا}}|rtl=yes}}) and are a common street food in winter, when street vendors with carts fitted with ovens sell them to people passing time by the [[Nile]] or the sea.<ref>{{cite news |title=The batata man |url=https://ww.egyptindependent.com/batata-man/ |access-date=15 July 2019 |publisher=Egypt Independent |date=19 October 2011 |archive-date=15 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190715111248/https://ww.egyptindependent.com/batata-man/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The cultivars used are an orange-fleshed one as well as a white/cream-fleshed one. They are also baked at home as a snack or dessert, drenched with [[honey]].

In [[Ethiopia]], the commonly found cultivars are black-skinned, cream-fleshed and called ''bitatis'' or ''mitatis''. They are cultivated in the eastern and southern lower highlands and harvested during the rainy season (June/July). In recent years,{{When|date=January 2020}} better yielding orange-fleshed cultivars were released for cultivation by [[Haramaya University]] as a less sugary sweet potato with higher vitamin A content.<ref>{{cite journal |first1=Tekalign |last1=Tsegaw |first2=Nigussie |last2=Dechassa |title=Registration of Adu and Barkume: Improved sweet potato (''Ipomoea batatas'') varieties for eastern Ethiopia |journal=[[East African Journal of Sciences]] |year=2008 |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=189–191 |doi=10.4314/eajsci.v2i2.40382 |url=http://haramayajournals.org/index.php/ej/article/view/63/57 |doi-access=free |access-date=20 April 2018 |archive-date=21 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170921215339/http://haramayajournals.org/index.php/ej/article/view/63/57 |url-status=live }}{{Registration required}}</ref> Sweet potatoes are widely eaten boiled as a favored snack.

In South Africa, sweet potatoes are often eaten as a side dish such as [[soetpatats]].