Sweet potato is an important root crop grown all over the world and consumed as a vegetable, boiled, baked or often fermented into food and beverages. Fresh sweet potato fruit contains about 70 to 72 % (wb) moisture content. There are more chances of the sweet potato getting spoiled or deteriorated. Also, sweet potato is a perishable root, it has shelf life of 2 to 3 weeks and marketing of sweet potatoes to different places is also one of major constraint, as about 35 % post-harvest losses occur during post-harvest management. Therefore, it is necessary to convert it into value added products...
Sweet potato is an important root crop grown all over the world and consumed as a vegetable, boiled, baked or often fermented into food and beverages....