Honey sweet potatoes

Honey  sweet potatoes are more special than ordinary tubers because when roasted, these sweet potatoes release a sticky, honey-sugar liquid that tastes sweet. Because of this, Cilembu sweet potatoes are also called honey sweet potatoes. If sweet potatoes are generally sweet, the sweet taste of  sweet potatoes is sweeter and stickier with honey sugar. This sweet taste provides extra energy for the person who consumes it.

This sweet potato is not suitable for frying, because its high sugar content makes it very easy to "burn", and it is also not suitable for boiling, because the aroma of the "honey" will be reduced, even lost. In general, Cilembu sweet potato products are traded in the form of roasted sweet potatoes in addition to being processed in the form of chips, tape, dodol, keremes, jams, sauces, flour, various cakes, noodles and syrup. Cilembu sweet potatoes have high economic value because of their distinctive taste, sweet like honey and sticky, the structure of the flesh is chewy, and attractive, so they are very popular with farming businesses and consumers.

Honey sweet potatoes have a glycemic index of 65.74 which is in the medium category.

Apart from the very sweet taste, the color of the sweet potato flesh is also quite interesting, where the skin and flesh of the sweet potato are reddish-cream colored when raw and yellow when cooked and the shape of the sweet potato is long, veined. The shape is long and the skin is not smooth because there are long veins that stand out. When roasted, grilled, or in the oven, melts like honey will emerge from the ivory skin