番薯学名甘薯,北方也称之为地瓜;\\\"番\\\"就是异邦,其得名,本身说明它是从南洋传入的农作物。番薯的营养、口感和大米相比,属次一等的杂粮。但实际上,它是客家山区杂粮中的老大,地位仅次于稻谷,对于山区清贫人家而言,番薯几乎等同于主食;对于中等以上人家而言,一年之中的很多时候,也是靠它充饥的;在某种意义上而言,吃饭就是吃番薯。在闽西汀州客家地区,番薯的品种众多:根据其肤色,红的叫红薯,白的叫白薯,紫的叫紫薯, Sweet potato sweet potato, also known as the northern sweet potatoes; \"Fan\" is a foreign state, its name, itself shows that it is imported from Nanyang crops. Sweet potato nutrition, taste and rice compared to the first-class grains. However, in fact, it is the eldest son of cereals in Hakka mountains, ranking second only to rice, for poor people in mountainous areas, sweet potatoes are almost the same as staple foods; for middle-aged people, many times of the year, In a sense, eating is to eat sweet potato. Hakka region in Tingxi, Fujian, sweet potato variety many: according to their color, red is called sweet potato, white is called sweet potato, purple is purple sweet potato,