most recent 30 from http://paleohacks.com 2013-05-23T06:06:25Z http://paleohacks.com/feeds/question/155826 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://paleohacks.com/questions/155826/is-eating-raw-sweet-potato-bad-for-you Jay Killeen 2012-10-15T08:13:20Z 2013-03-30T18:42:10Z

<p>I regularly eat raw sweet potato on the car ride home after karate. I view it the same as eating raw carrot. Are there any potential issues with eating raw sweet potato?</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/155826/is-eating-raw-sweet-potato-bad-for-you/155830#155830 BoneBrothFast 2012-10-15T08:48:19Z 2012-10-15T08:48:19Z

<p>This seems like a really good way to give yourself serious potentially long-lasting GI issues.</p> <p>No, eating a raw carrot is not the same as eating a raw sweet potato. Carrots have very little starch. A potato is essentially a starch bomb.</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/155826/is-eating-raw-sweet-potato-bad-for-you/155831#155831 Happy Now 2012-10-15T08:59:13Z 2012-10-15T09:10:02Z

<p>Found this little gem with a bit of googling (scroll down a ways until you get to sweet potatoes) <a href="http://www.fao.org/docrep/T0207E/T0207E08.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.fao.org/docrep/T0207E/T0207E08.htm</a></p> <p>"There is a significant correlation between the trypsin inhibitor content and the protein content of the sweet potato variety. Heating to 90°C for several minutes inactivates trypsin inhibitors. Lawrence and Walker (1976) have implicated TIA in sweet potato as a contributory factor in the disease enteritis necroticans. This seems doubtful since sweet potato is not usually eaten raw and the activity of the trypsin inhibitor present is destroyed by heat."</p> <p>There is also a blurb about the fartiness of raffinose in sweet potatoes, but I'd be more concerned about enteritis necroticans, a potentially fatal form of food poisoning that causes gangrene of the gut.</p> <p>Long story short, cook those puppies before eating them!</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/155826/is-eating-raw-sweet-potato-bad-for-you/188605#188605 kevin 2013-03-30T18:42:10Z 2013-03-30T18:42:10Z

<p>With regard to the question of mature edible Yam's being toxic... </p> <p>As the previous contributor posted the following link..</p> <p><a href="http://www.fao.org/docrep/T0207E/T0207E08.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.fao.org/docrep/T0207E/T0207E08.htm</a></p> <p>I'm wondering if the last paragraph of that link clears up the question regarding Yam?</p> <p>"Yam..</p> <p>"The edible, mature, cultivated yam does not contain any toxic principles..."</p>