Safe to eat vole damaged sweet potatoes?

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Safe to eat vole damaged sweet potatoes?

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Hi guys.

I harvested my sweet potatoes today, and the voles had done a lot of damage. Is it safe to eat a sweet potato that voles have partially eaten?

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I tried growing sweet potatoes for the first time this year. Some of them did have critter damage. I am eating them. Of course I wash, pare away the really bad parts and cook them before I eat them.
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Hey Dependable. Thanks for the response.

How did you cure your sweet potatoes?

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If they are supposed to be cured then I am missing something. Be glad to hear about it.
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Here's a link with a brief description; I'll see if I can find something more detailed. Curing is supposed to help them keep longer and get sweeter.

http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/sweetpotatoes.html

What variety did you plant?
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Here are a couple more links about curing sweet potatoes. We're not sure how to find a spot that's warm enough.

http://www.motherearthnews.com/grow-it/ ... 0zkon.aspx

http://www.ncsweetpotatoes.com/sweet-po ... d-storing/

http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/ho-136.pdf
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Interesting, I planted white ones because the orange ones were sold out. Have been eating them without having cured them. They are good but could be sweeter. Something like regular potatoes but sweeter and more fibrous .
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Weird -- I just read this morning about sweet potatoes needing to be cured. They're starchy like normal potatoes when freshly dug, but the starches turn to sugars over time. I had no idea!
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