“…Consumption o f d i e t s r i c h i n f r u i t s a n d v e g e t a b l e s , containing significant amounts of antioxidants, high dietary fiber, low saturated and trans fat and a balance in other essential nutrients are recommended to reduce the risk for CVD. Sweet potato greens and purslane, two novel foods, and several traditional foods included in the African-American diet such as butter beans, purple hull peas, muscadine grapes, collards, butter peas, figs, okra, mustard greens, green onions, rutabagas, and eggplant are examples of foods that contain significant levels of antioxidants (Huang et al, 2007a(Huang et al, , 2007b(Huang et al, , 2008(Huang et al, , 2009. In an article by Johnson and Pace (2010),the nutritional characteristics of sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas) leaves were reviewed in terms of health promotion and disease prevention.…”