SWEET POTATO

VARIETY : Various

GRADE : One

• GENERAL APPEARANCE CRITERIA

SIZE : Medium : diameter 50 –85 mm, length 180 –300mm

COLOUR: Copper orange -red skin; bright orange flesh

VISUAL APPEARANCE : Tuberous root vegetable with dry flesh. Smooth skin that is free from secondary rootlets, veining or roughness. Minimal residual soil after washing.

Skinning is allowable on new season tubers. Uniform flesh and skin characteristics within the lot. Nil with green areas or an overall green tinge on tuber. Free from foreign matter.Trimmed ends <20mm.

SENSORY: Firm, crisp, dry flesh texture. Free from foreign and off  smellsor tastes

SHAPE: Oval or elongated tuber. Not badly disfigured, crooked or constricted.

MATURITY: Well coloured with no evidence of coarse or stringy texture.