Assertion: sweet potato's leaf | /r/HasProperty | eaten as vegetable
Facets:
value: in southwest asia
type: LOCATION
value: widely
type: DEGREE
value: in west african countries
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: The leaves of I. batatas are eaten as a vegetable, and have been shown to slow oxygenation of LDLs, with some similar potential health benefits to green tea and grape polyphenols.
text: The young leaves and vine tips of sweet potato leaves are widely consumed as a vegetable in West African countries (Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, for example), as well as in northeastern Uganda, East Africa.
text: Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is a perennial plant of the Convolvulaceae family, the same one where tangkong or Chinese spinach belong (Ipomoea aquatica = Ipomoea reptans), a plant whose leaves are eaten as vegetables in Southwest Asia.