do you know that sweet potatoes are good and healthy substitute for rice?

Oh yes and no. Yes because we in the Philippines can't live without rice. I'm not saying it's not healthy, as well. But I'm just raising sweet potato as a substitute for rice, not an exchange for rice. Rice nowadays in the Philippines is very expensive. In fact, there has been a health and economic program initiated by one of the provinces in the Philippines in June 2008. That time, the price of per kilo of rice suddenly shoot up with the rice shortage. We call it "Saksak sinagol" in the dialect, that is mixing sweet potatoes with rice, boiling it, and we eat it. Most of the poor adopted the scheme to save on rice. No, they don't have the same nutritional value. White rice is just carbohydrates, sugar and calories, while sweet potatoes are rich in fiber, vitamin C, potassium, protein, calcium and niacin. The lowly sweet potatoes have a lower glycemic index compared to rice, that means when they glucose that trickles in your blood sugar level is lower. One won't have a high risk of inflicting diabetes. We Filipinos indeed can't live without rice. In fact, it is our staple food.