Don't just serve deliciously honeyed or savory sweet potatoes on holidays; enjoy them regularly in a plethora of ways – sautéed, baked, steamed, or fried – because they're good for you! Antioxidants take the bite out of free radicals roaming throughout your body looking for a place to cause damage, but that's just one of the tremendous health benefits you get from sweet potatoes. Anthocyanidins, which give them deep pigments such as orange and purple, contain flavonoid and antioxidant clotting, wound-healing, and heavy metal cleansing properties.

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Sweet potatoes come with super strong beta-carotenes, along with copper/zinc superoxide dismutase and catalase, adiponectin for balancing your insulin, impressive doses of vitamin A, plus good levels of vitamin C and vitamin B6. Studies have proven both orange and purple sweet potatoes to be cancer fighters, but purple sweet potatoes include cyanidins and peonidins for extra protection.

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Including three to five grams of (good) fat with every meal significantly increases your beta-carotene uptake from sweet potatoes, easily done by using one tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil.