Not eating the skins A lot of people wonder if sweet potato skins are edible. They are, and you should definitely be eating them! Keeping the skin on concentrates the sweet potato's nutrients, and it also helps the insides stay moist as the potato cooks. Find our best healthy sweet potato recipes. 6 сент. 2019 г.
Do you leave the skins on a sweet potato?
For most sweet potato recipes, it's unnecessary to remove the skin. Nevertheless, certain dishes, such as desserts, are best made without the skins. You can eat sweet potato skins by themselves or leave them on in most recipes, though desserts usually exclude the peel.
Is sweet potato skin the healthiest part?
Well, yes you can —and you should! The copper-colored skin that wraps around a whole sweet potato contains most of the healthy vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, including a host of phytochemicals that have protective and disease-preventing properties.
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