Ariana’s Lesson on Sweet Potatoes

A holiday recipe that I tested for healthiness was sweet potatoes.  Every Thanksgiving my mom and my Tia (aunt) Celi make sweet potatoes, and even though I don’t like sweet potatoes I tried both of them this year so I could do a taste comparison.  My mom’s sweet potatoes were really sweet and sugary..they’re called candied yams.   My Tia’s were plain.  I found out my mom makes hers with lots of maple syrup, brown sugar, and butter.  Not healthy at all!   All  my Tia Celi did with hers was rub butter on the skin before baking them in the over.  Then you peel the skin before eating them….so pretty healthy.  I still didn’t like ether of them even though one was full of sugar. I would have to  say my Tia’s was definitely the healthy one!