is sweet potato considered a starch
Carbohydrates generally make up between 80 to 90 % of the dry weight of sweet potato roots. The sweet potato yields an important starch, which is used as a food starch in noodles etc. and technically for sizing textiles and papers, for the manufacture of adhesives and in laundries. The process of extracting and refining the starch is similar to the potato starch process. The pink and yellow varieties are rich in carotene, the precursor of vitamin A. Sweet potato starch granules vary from 4 to 40 microns with 19 micron in average.