Method of packaging and microwaving sweet potato

A method of packaging, protecting, preserving, and microwaving a sweet potato wherein only one package serves to protect and preserve the sweet potato as well as to containerize the same for microwaving, comprising the steps of:

• after harvesting and cleaning the sweet potato, but prior to transporting it to market, wrapping the sweet potato individually within an air permeable, heat-shrinkable plastic film that is sufficiently air permeable to allow an exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide through the film to enable the wrapped sweet potato to continue to respire while at the same time preventing excessive moisture loss from the wrapped sweet potato to prevent withering and drying of the sweet potato;
• said film being capable of allowing said sweet potato to be cooked in said film in a microwave oven;
• then heating and shrinking the plastic film around the entire sweet potato such that the plastic film is tightly bound around the entire sweet potato;
• transporting the shrink-wrapped sweet potato from the wrapping site to market with the sweet potato remaining shrink-wrapped with the same plastic film during transport and at market such that the sweet potato is protected and respiration is accomodated by the same plastic film;
• and cooking the packaged sweet potato within the same individual heat-shrunk plastic film by placing the shrink-wrapped sweet potato in a microwave oven and cooking the same while being so wrapped.