“…Essential amino acids make up approximately 40.7% of the sweet potato protein, which is especially rich in aspartic acid (18.5%) and glutamic acid (9.30%; Mu, Tan, & Xue, ) but deficient in lysine (Sun, Mu, Zhang, & Arogundade, ). It has been reported that the digestibility of autoclaved sweet potato protein is 95.1% in vivo, which is markedly higher than that of native sweet potato protein (50.4%; Sun et al, ). In addition, sweet potatoes are rich in dietary fiber, minerals, vitamins, and antioxidants, such as phenolic acids, anthocyanins, α‐tocopherol, and β‐carotene, which are considered beneficial to human and animal health (Woolfe, ).…”