'''شکر قندی''' (Sweet potato) ایک جڑ سبزی ہے۔<ref name="Purseglove, 1991">{{cite book |last=Purseglove |first= John Williams |year=1968 |title=Tropical crops: Dicotyledons |series=Longman Scientific and Technical |publisher=John Wiley and Sons, Inc. |publication-place=New York, USA |url=http://books.google.com/books/about/Tropical_Crops.html?id=rYQ_AAAAYAAJ|isbn= 9780582466661 }}</ref><ref name="Woolfe, 1992">{{cite book| last=Woolfe |first=Jennifer A. |title=Sweet Potato: An Untapped Food Resource |date=5 March 1992 |publication-place=Cambridge, UK |publisher=Cambridge University Press and the International Potato Center (CIP)|isbn=9780521402958}}</ref>