Before adapting Western style cuisine, thanks to the Okinawa diet, the island’s inhabitants had the longest life expectancy on earth – 81.2 years.Ī staggering 70% of their former diet consisted of Okinawan purple yams. Up until recent history, they lived in their own little world out there, with a way of eating which was quite different. The Okinawan comes from an island which is 400 miles south of mainland Japan. It’s important to differentiate between the Okinawan purple sweet potato and the white fleshed version. Sure, the sugar content (fructose) is naturally occurring, but that doesn’t change the fact that it too will spike your blood sugar. Their melon fetish is hard to understand. They definitely like a few sugar-laden foods themselves. which are not sweetened with added sugar.Įven foods marketed as being “healthy” such as organic protein bars… most seem to have 10 to 20 grams (or more) of sugar in some form.īut the Japanese are not innocent. It’s almost impossible to buy dried berries – such as cranberries – at any grocery store in the U.S. We have heard from many who hate the fact that us Westerners tend to ruin everything by adding sugar to it. Understandable, as they can be hard to resist.Ĭompared to Americans, the Japanese have less of a sweet tooth.
What do Okinawan sweet potatoes taste like?ĭue to the pandemic, these can be hard to find and rather than picking up at Trader Joe’s, you have people resorting to buying their purple potatoes on Amazon.What does a Japanese sweet potato taste like?.
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