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Abstract
As part of a larger community nutrition study,t one section of our research was devoted to the examination of sweet potato consumption in a North Carolina community in transition from a rural to a suburban way of life. One key question guided our research: What social and cultural factors affect the acceptance or rejection of this vegetable in or from the diet? Since sweet potatoes are an important crop in North Carolina and a valuable source of the provitamin A carotenoids, the decline in its use deserves immediate and serious scientific attention. This study should shed some light on the probable causes for the decline of the sweet potato in the North Carolina and national dietaries.
INDEX TERMS OR WORDS: sweet potatoes; sweet potato consumption, attitudes toward … , changes in … ; and nutritional anthropology.
Notes
This study was made possible by a Faculty Research Grant (1973) and a grant from the Penrose Fund (No. 7130) of the American Philosophical Society (1974).