Why is fried sweet potato sweeter than boiled sweet potato?

Sweet potato is sweet by nature, as its name implies; it contains sugars we can taste, certainly more sugar than a “regular” potato. Frying it ... Hilary Ransdell, I am an eater; I cook. ... When something becomes sweeter it's because heat or another process has broken the sugars down into less complex ones that we can taste. read more

Sweet potatoes are mostly starch, just like any other energy-storing tuber. And they taste about as good as any other raw tuber until you start cooking it! As soon as sweet potatoes start to heat up during cooking, a special enzyme particular to sweet potatoes goes to work. read more

Sweet potato is sweet by nature, as its name implies; it contains sugars we can taste, certainly more sugar than a “regular” potato. Frying it can cause the sugars to caramelize, and that tastes sweet to us as well. read more