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Interesting facts of sweet potatoes: harvesting and curing

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In case of normal potatoes you destroy the foliage above ground before harvesting. This allows the potato peel to harden in the ground and then you can harvest. In the case of sweet potatoes you don’t have this possibility and that’s why we help the shelf life thanks to the curing method. Right after the harvest we store the sweet potato for a week at a constant temperature of 30 degrees and a relative air humidity of 95%. By doing so we can store the sweet potato for a year after date. After the curing process they can be stored like a normal potato at a temperature of 12 degrees.