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Sweet potato facts
 
Sweet potatoes are roots, whereas regular potatoes are tubers (underground stems).
Sweet potatoes are native to Central and South America and have been grown for at least 10,000 years.
Christopher Columbus took sweet potatoes to Europe after his first voyage to the New World in 1492.
By the 16th century, Spanish and Portuguese explorers had taken sweet potatoes to the Philippines and to Africa, India, Indonesia and southern Asia. Around this same time, sweet potatoes began to be cultivated in the southern United States.
George Washington grew sweet potatoes at Mount Vernon.
George Washington Carver developed 118 products from sweet potatoes, including glue for postage stamps and starch for sizing cotton fabrics.
Sweet potatoes are North Carolina's official state vegetable. North Carolina is the leading producer of sweet potatoes in the United States, producing about 40 percent of the national supply.
China grows about 80 million tons of sweet potatoes each year, Africa produces about 14 million tons, Central and South America churn out about 2 million tons and the United States harvests about 1 million tons.