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Sweet Potato Milk Turns Waste Into Wealth | Durham News
Appalachian State researchers just unlocked a wild new product: sweet potato milk — creamy, sweet, and orange-hued — made from the 63 million pounds of “ugly” sweet potatoes rotting in North Carolina fields every year. Backed by a $1.82 million grant, startup Rootsii is turning waste into wonder, aiming to launch in Western NC next year and expand statewide by year two. They’re testing it in coffee, cereal, and even yogurt, with plans to use local muscadine grape seed oil too — all while building a processing hub in Eastern NC to support farmers and spotlight North Carolina’s agricultural…
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