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Sweet potato

What the research shows

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A starchy root vegetable that grows underground.

It is eaten as a staple food and has a naturally sweet flavor.

Written from Open Food Facts and English Wikipedia12

What research says

Animal and lab studies only

  • Benefit

    Belly fat and inflammation6

    In animal studies, purple sweet potato reduced belly fat and inflammation in rats fed a high-fat diet.

  • Benefit

    Bread nutrient content7

    In lab studies, bread with sweet potato puree contained beta-carotene, which the body can turn into vitamin A.

Study type not stated

  • Benefit

    Heart and cancer protection3

    Sweet potato contains natural compounds that may help prevent some cancers and heart problems.

  • Benefit

    Vitamin A levels4

    Orange-fleshed sweet potato has a lot of carotenoids and tastes good, and studies suggest it may help with vitamin A.

  • Benefit

    Vitamin A in children5

    Sweet potato flour mixes were well liked and contained vitamin A, which may help children who lack it.

The signal at the top counts the findings in people and in animal and lab studies. A concern in studies of people outranks animal and lab studies, and “No concerns” needs at least two findings in people. Findings whose study type is not stated are shown but not counted. This page is a reference, not medical advice. It describes what regulators and published research say. Talk to a doctor or dietitian about your own diet.

Products

The 6 most-scanned of 3,130 products on Open Food Facts that list sweet potato.

  • Mini Bagels The Original Brottery · 5 2 additives
  • Oven Baked Sweet Potato Fries Strong Roots · 500 g 0 additives
  • Sesame seed bagels NYC Bagels · 5 2 additives
  • sweet potato pakora with red pepper, cumin and chilli Gosh! · 171 g 0 additives
  • Sweet Potato Chips Sea Salt Jackson's · 16 ounces 0 additives
  • Butternut squash & chilli immunity power soup BOL · 600 g 0 additives

References

  1. 1sweet potato: ingredient taxonomy entry. Open Food Facts.
  2. 2Sweet potato. Wikipedia. Accessed September 26, 2026.
  3. 3Escobar-Puentes AA, Palomo I, Rodríguez L, et al. Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batatas L.) Phenotypes: From Agroindustry to Health Effects. Foods. 2022;11(7). doi:10.3390/foods11071058
  4. 4Neela S, Fanta SW. Review on nutritional composition of orange-fleshed sweet potato and its role in management of vitamin A deficiency. Food Sci Nutr. 2019;7(6):1920-1945. doi:10.1002/fsn3.1063
  5. 5Olaniran AF, Okonkwo CE, Osemwegie OO, et al. Production, acceptability, nutritional and pasting properties of orange-flesh sweet potato, cowpea and banana flour mix. Sci Rep. 2024;14(1):4602. doi:10.1038/s41598-024-55312-1
  6. 6Yen CH, Chiang MH, Lee YC, Kao ES, Lee HJ. Purple Sweet Potato Ameliorates High-Fat Diet-Induced Visceral Adiposity by Attenuating Inflammation and Promoting Adipocyte Browning. J Agric Food Chem. 2025;73(6):3457-3467. doi:10.1021/acs.jafc.4c08799
  7. 7Mbogo D, Muzhingi T, Janaswamy S. Starch digestibility and β-carotene bioaccessibility in the orange- fleshed sweet potato puree-wheat bread. J Food Sci. 2021;86(3):901-906. doi:10.1111/1750-3841.15620