Now that you know why I'm so crazy-for-beets, and why I've ditched the glycoalkaloid-laden nightshades, let's talk my obsession with sweet potatoes, the world's seventh most important food crop (Shekhar et al., 2015). In fact, in developing countries, sweet potatoes rank fifth in terms of caloric contribution to the human diet and third in terms of production value (Shekar et al., 2015). Whereas the white- and cream-fleshed cultivars are predominately grown in the Pacific, th