Sweet potatoes are snacks in hotels across Kenya as an accompaniment for tea breaks and breakfast. It is also a main meal in thousands of households. Consumers have also made considerable progress in moving to the consumption of high nutrient content and beneficial foods hitherto ignored like the sweet potatoes. It has also become as source food in food insecure areas where maize supplies are insufficient throughout the year. Among the many benefits of the sweet potato are:
- It is a rich source of Vitamin A, an active immune system enhancer, ideal for proper eye and skin development, cell growth among a host of other benefits.
- It is very ideal diabetics who use it as an alternative food to bread or cane sugar.
- When added value, it used in the making of jams,chapattis, mandazis and commercial soaps.
- It can be blended with spices and herbs and some added flavoring to be able to produce a variety of dishes that enhance our nutritional needs.
- Research has shown that sweet potatoes has the nutritional content to boost the immune system and may be very ideal for immune-compromised individuals like AIDS patients, it strengthens bones, has been proved to help in the healing of heart disease and aid in the prevention of cancer and posses desirable antioxidant qualities.
- Compared to most vegetables it has good fibre content, some complex carbohydrates, potassium, iron and Vitamin A and C.
- It is a staple food that can effectively be used to fight hunger and malnutrition in settings of poverty and as an additional meal on the tables of several households.
This is the dream we supply to households, hotels and restaurants, children homes and homes for the aged, food manufacturers like bakeries and confectioneries, hospitals and areas where the supply of other staple food is in short supply across the year.
We supply Farm Fresh Orange fleshed and yellow fleshed sweet potatoes for direct consumption and for Value Addition across Kenya. We also sell potato vines to farmers who have the desire to venture into potato farming.
Finally we offer technical support in the sweet potato value chain particularly to farmers venturing to farming for the very first time and the necessary linkages.
We produce, sort and transport your sweet potato orders to agreed destinations across Kenya. This is packaged in 110kg sacks. For your sweet potato orders you can reach us on the number below:
Jane 0725772524
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