Why Sweet Vegetables?
Almost everyone craves sweets. Instead of depending on processed sugar, you can add more naturally sweet flavor to your daily diet and dramatically reduce sweet cravings. Certain vegetables have a deep, sweet flavor when cooked—like corn, carrots, onions, beets, winter squash (butternut, buttercup, delicata, hubbard and kabocha), sweet potatoes and yams. Some lesser-known vegetables that are semi-sweet are turnips, parsnips and rutabagas. And there is another group of vegetables that don’t taste sweet, but have an effect on the body similar to that of sweet vegetables. These include red radishes, daikon radish, green cabbage, red cabbage and burdock. They relax the body and energize the mind. And because many of these vegetables are root vegetables, they have a grounding effect, helping to balance out the spacey feeling people often experience after eating other sweets.
Other delicious ways to incorporate sweet vegetables into your daily diet include eating raw carrots, baking sweet potato fries, roasting squash, making soup with corn and onions or boiling beets to put on top of your salad.