Description
Cilembu sweet potato, a readily processed potato, is a sweet
potato which has been stored for **7 days after harvested. The
characteristic of processed cilembu sweet potato in-oven is that it
feels more limp (not stiff) when in crooked-bent , shrink wieght as
well as slightly wrinkles skin.
Cilembu sweet potato is commonly processed by in-oven for
approximately ****0 minutes (depending on the size of the sweet
potato), until it become soft and pulled out with a sweet and
sticky liquid sugar of honey. There is honey liquid only found on
cilembu sweet potato. This is what became cilembu sweet potato
idiosyncrasy compared with the other sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes
is very sweet and fluffier, different with ordinary sweet potatoes.
Therefore, Cilembu sweet potato also called Honey sweet potatoes.
After being in-oven sweet potato will hold up to **3 days on normal
temperatures. For more durability, it can be stored into the
refrigerators and re-warmed for further consumable. The sweet taste
contains source of energy for people who consume it.
Sweet potato is not suitable to be fried, because the high sugar
content makes this sweet potato very easy to become
“sandbar”. It is also not suitable for boil, because the aroma of
the "honey" will diminish, or even disappear. In general, Cilembu
sweet potato products are traded in the form of roasted sweet
potatoes besides processed in the form of chips, tape, lunkhead,
keremes, jams, sauces, flour, various cakes, noodles, and syrup.
Cilembu sweet potato have high economic value because the taste is
typical, sweet like honey and sticky, chewy meat structure and
attractive, so it is very favorable by farm business and
consumers.
The best way of cilembu sweet potato storage in order to maintain
shelf life and sweetness are as follows :
1. Store in open and dry room open, and use pedestal cardboard or
sack so sweet potato not touching the floor.
2. Done in sand or ash in the following way :
• Wind-aired sweet potato freshly harvested in a place with dry
floor for **3 days .
• Prepare the storage in the form of special room or warehouse with
dry, cool, and good air circulation.
• Stack sweet potato on the warehouse floor, then back-filled with
dry sand or ash as thick as ****0 cm up to all surfaces of sweet
potato. This way of storage can maintain shelf life of sweet sweet
potato up to 5 months. Sweet potatoes using well storage process
will usually produce a sweet potato which taste sweet and yummy
when compared with freshly harvested sweet potato. Important things
that must done in sweet potato storage are choosing of good sweet
potato, none broken or injured, and place (space) with low
temperature storage between ****0 °C (room temperature) with air
humidity between ****0%.
• Storage can also be performed on shelves or avoid storage of
tubers on the floor directly or in a bamboo basket with pedestal,
with a form of ash or dry sand and sweet potato storage on bamboo
racks which placed near the kitchen.
In Japan, Cilembu sweet potato have been utilized as a
traditional foodstuffs , cosmetic raw materials and typical
Japanese drinks “ Shake “. Japanese industry assess Cilembu sweet
potato, which is very nice to be used as cosmetic raw materials and
refreshments.
Specifications of Cilembu sweet potato :
1. Age of harvest 5 - 6 Month.
2. Fresh and Clean.
3. Contains : Energy , Carbohydrat ,Protein
, Fat , Vit.A , Calcium , Vit.B1 ,
Vit.B2 , Vit.C
.
4. Skin Color: Cream (Yellow whitish).
5. Fill Color ( part in ) : Yellow.
6. Fill : Solid and Soft .
7. Flavors Very Sweet .
8. Shapes : Round and Long in a state intact ;
not a broken ; not split in ; not torn.
9. Clean of dirt.
*0. The former of the roots already cut off (clean).
