in korean, sweet potato is 고구마 (goh goo mah). koreans love sweet potatoes. in seoul, you can buy steamed 고구마 right off the street. (you can buy pretty much anything from a street vendor!) when i was younger, my mom would simply steam them and eat them, plain. she made me eat them too. i was by no means forced to eat them, the sweet potato is easy to enjoy! hold sweet potato in hand, devour. you don't need anything else. no utensils required. no additions necessary. it's naturally sweet and delicious. and, AND, it's a serious super food. SUPER!
last night in class, my student, mr. lee and i were talking about the joys of fresh organic produce. we talked about sweet potatoes and how healthy they were. he told me that they had a lot of fabric in them. fabric? huh?! AHHHHHH! you mean FIBER!!! fabric, fiber? actually, fabric has fibers--i can see the relationship--related, but different.
fiber. i wondered what else the sweet potato contained and i was impressed! it's a nutritional super star! not only does it provide a good source of fiber, it's also loaded with vitamin a (helps form and maintain healthy teeth, skeletal and soft tissue, mucous membranes, and skin) and vitamin c (necessary in the body to form collagen in bones, cartilage, muscle, and blood vessels and aids in the absorption of iron, and prevents scurvy) and potassium (needed for cells, especially nerve and muscle cells, to function properly.)
i'm going to eat a sweet potato now...
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