sweet potatoes

Couldn’t resist this little snippet! Apparently, if you zap sweet potatoes with an electric current can boost levels of antioxidants by as much as 60%, according a new study. The days of electrical nutrition have arrived! Actually, it makes sense: if you stress the vegetables, they release more antioxidants to protect themselves. It reminds me of the old (wicked) Chinese belief that if you torture the pig before eating it, the flesh tastes better. Add that to Cleve Backster’s discovery that plants know what’s going on and you’ll see what I mean. I don’t think I can bring myself to deliberately “hurt” sweet potatoes, just to enrich them nutritionally*. Nevertheless, the science is there…

Couldn’t resist this little snippet! Apparently, if you zap sweet potatoes with an electric current can boost levels of antioxidants by as much as 60%, according a new study. The days of electrical nutrition have arrived! Actually, it makes sense: if you stress the vegetables, they release more antioxidants to protect themselves. It reminds me of the old (wicked) Chinese belief that if you torture the pig before eating it, the flesh tastes better. Add that to Cleve Backster’s discovery that plants know what’s going on and you’ll see what I mean. I don’t think I can bring myself to deliberately “hurt” sweet potatoes, just to enrich them nutritionally*. Nevertheless, the science is there…