Sweet Oil From The Ground

Dioscorea alata L. syn D. atropurpurea Roxb. is the Latin name of sweet oil, a type of food tubers. Sweet coconut is one of the various types of yam that grows in the earth. The plant has two kinds of colors: red and white color, the color purple in the English language is known as the purple yam. To distinguish it from other types of sweet potatoes, in Indonesia especially in Javanese commonly called sweet coconut uwi.


The difference between purple and white potatoes can be seen from the fins and stalks. Purple sweet potato has a fin lengths and ends of the petiole purplish red, round and sweet form menjari. Aromatic flesh would if boiled. Fins white yam stems and stalks of green leaves whitish, long-form and do not have a sweet smell when cooked. These plants grow vines up to 10 m. Root tubers are very large and can reach 1 m in length even more.

Sweet potatoes are a source of carbohydrates that can be developed to meet food needs. Besides being a staple food rice companion, also can be processed into various foods varies. Cassava processing is as simple as fried, boiled or steamed and sebgai mixed vegetables cooked in the making with or without coconut milk. As a food, usually eaten boiled potatoes dyang with fish dishes.

Some of the processed potato products
1. parsnip chips
Making chips made ​​with sliced ​​potatoes (thinly sliced ​​lengthwise and tapered).

2. Sawut sweet
Sliced ​​sweet potatoes lengthwise into small pieces and then steamed for about 15 minutes until tender. In sawut presentation can be mixed with a solution of brown sugar or with menghhancurkan sawut steamed and mixed with other ingredients (eggs, flour, sugar) and then fried or steamed back to taste.

3. cassava flour
The use of cassava flour as a raw material is bread or cake. The flour is mixed with flour teriguu or nuts to increase the nutritional value. Composition of the flour mixture adjusted to the type of cake or bread to be made. Making way is by grinding the sifted dry ingredients and kemidian. kdar flour about 10% water and can be retained for several months in a plastic package meeting.

4. industrial materials
Besides the food and industrial raw materials of food, sweet potatoes can be used as raw materials to other industries, namely industrial starch, alcohol and drug material. This type of purple sweet potatoes can be used to make cream oak material.