Those earthy, highly nutritious tubers go by the names of Okinawan and Molokai purple sweet potatoes. When comparing types of ...

there are distinct differences between the Okinawan purple sweet potato and the ube tuber. Okinawan purple sweet potatoes, ...

Explore the lifestyle secrets behind Okinawa's extraordinary longevity, from diet to community bonds and daily movement.

"Want to live longer? Eat more sweet potatoes. "Ideally, it would be a purple sweet potato from Okinawa, but regular sweet potatoes are just fine. They're full of complex carbohydrates, they have ...

Explaining how Okinawans have always been able to rely on Beni Imo despite periods of famine, he wrote: "The one food they could count on was the Beni Imo, or Okinawan sweet potato, a purple ...