Sweet potatoes are one of the most popular and healthy vegetables in the United States. In fact, the US per capita consumption of sweet potatoes was around 7.9 pounds in 2019. By 2020, the US production of sweet potatoes amounted to 30.67 million CWT. That’s a whole lot of sweet potatoes. 

With these statistics in mind, there is no questioning the demand for this increasingly popular vegetable. Whether you’re a consumer or a food entrepreneur, I want to help you out. I’ve invested the last two days coming up with 149 spud-tacular sweet potato quotes, slogans and captions that you can share on social media. Scroll down to check them out. 

Sweet Potato Quotes

A whole bunch of sweet potatoes.

  • “My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.” – Lenny Kravitz
  • “Purchase items that can be made into several meals, like a whole roasted chicken, or bag of sweet potatoes, and shop the periphery of the grocery store, avoiding the middle aisles full of processed and higher-priced foods.” – Cat Cora
  • “Sweet potatoes are ideal for lazy days: just bake, then mash and mix with yogurt, butter or olive oil.” – Yotam Ottolenghi

“My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: the turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother’s Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife’s Midwestern roots; the Campbell’s green-bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie.” – Douglas Conant

  • “Eating right is a natural defense against the sun. Sweet potatoes, dark chocolate, pomegranates, leafy greens, almonds, and teas all help against the sun. Otherwise, 100 SPF will do.” – Stella Maxwell
  • “For me, it’s the unexpected and surprising combinations of produce that are the most exciting and lure me into the kitchen for a little bit of experimenting. Apples and sweet potatoes together? Who knew? Carrots with grapes? Okay. I may not be Julia Child, but I can do pretty well with a simple recipe and a lot of enthusiasm.” – Marlo Thomas
  • “Nothing is more memorable than a smell.  One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town.  Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.  Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once.  A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.” – Diane Ackerman

“At Thanksgiving, my mom always makes too much food, especially one item, like 700 or 800 pounds of sweet potatoes. She’s got to push it during the meal. “Did you get some sweet potatoes? There’s sweet potatoes. They’re hot. There’s more in the oven, some more in the garage. The rest are at the Johnson’s.”” – Louie Anderson

  • “I cook rarely, but I’ve kind of got two or three dishes that I stick to. I do a great sweet potato and lentil curry.” – Chris O’Dowd
  • “Accounts of eating Christmas sweet potatoes baked in ashes and jackrabbit stewed with white flour dumplings are testaments to pioneer resilience and pleasure – and they help inspire my own best scratch cooking.” – Isabel Gillies
  • “I farm taro. I have eight varieties of taro, which is a staple of the Hawaiian people from about 2,000 years ago, and sweet potatoes, and it’s a sustainable living, agriculture, off the grid.” – Jason Scott Lee
  • “I have taken the marshmallows off the sweet potatoes, however. They would make a big pan of sweet potatoes and cover it with marshmallows. My kids would love it if I would do that for them!” – Edie Brickell
  • “I’ve spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I’m happy.” – Richie Sambora

“Get in some pasta or brown rice with your vegetables like a sweet potato and some meat. You need a little bit of everything on your plate to make sure your energy levels are right for the match.” – Jozy Altidore

  • “In the southern half of the country perhaps no crop has larger possibilities for quick increase of production of food for both men and animals than the sweet potato.” – David F. Houston
  • “I think broccoli is one of the must-have foods, as it contains multi nutrients and is high in vitamin C. Sweet potatoes are rich in complex carbohydrates, and fish, too, is healthy. There is nothing that I have on a daily basis, as it becomes monotonous.” – Shraddha Kapoor
  • “I eat a lot of sweet potatoes, a lot of meat, fish, chicken, good fats like cocoa butter, almonds.” – Hafthor Bjornsson

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  • “My stepdad was a farmer, so growing up, during summer breaks, I woke up every morning and went to work. Harvesting tobacco, picking cucumbers, gathering watermelons from the patch, pulling up sweet potatoes… stuff like that.” – Julius Peppers
  • “I love collard greens and sweet potatoes. But like, traveling, I’m always just looking for that thing where you feel like there’s love in the food.” – Neneh Cherry
  • “We do two things almost every week – either grilled steaks marinated in herbs or roasted chicken. There’s always a roasted vegetable, like Brussels sprouts or sweet potatoes or broccolini – whatever’s in season.” – Marcela Valladolid

Sweet Potato Slogans

  • Only the sweetest sweet potatoes here.
  • Sweet potatoes fresh from the farm.
  • The healthier potato.
  • Because your diet deserves the best.
  • Place of the best sweet potatoes in town.
  • Fresh and organic sweet potatoes.
  • We got farm fresh sweet potatoes here.
  • We provide sweet potatoes, you cook them.
  • You can find affordable sweet potatoes here.
  • Presenting the good potato.
  • For a well-balanced diet, choose sweet potatoes.
  • Sweet potatoes over regular potatoes any day.
  • Your number one supplier of sweet potatoes.
  • Start your day with a sweet potato.
  • Packed with healthy carbs and fiber.
  • The healthier source of carbohydrates.
  • Sweet potatoes, your partner in a healthy diet.
  • Say goodbye to regular potatoes.
  • Have it everyday.
  • Cook them anyway you like.
  • Sweet potatoes, rich in nutrients and taste.
  • Loaded with fiber!
  • Packed with the essentials.
  • Eat sweet potatoes. Enjoy life.
  • Add value to your lifestyle with sweet potatoes.
  • Healthy taste, healthy body.
  • Make sweet potatoes your best friend.
  • Replace rice with sweet potatoes.
  • Make the switch to sweet potatoes.
  • Sweet potatoes for a sweeter life.

Sweet Potato Captions

Chopped up sweet potatoes.

  • “As sweet as life.”
  • “Felt sweet. Might as well eat some sweet potatoes.”
  • “I probably love sweet potatoes more than anything.”
  • “One taste is all it takes.”
  • “Sweet potatoes, have them as appetizers, main course or dessert.”
  • “I’m a sweet eater. So, I prefer sweet potatoes.
  • “The fact that ‘sweet’ is already part of its name is enough for me to eat it.”
  • “You’re one sweet potato.”
  • “I only have eyes for sweet potatoes.”
  • “Why be just a regular potato when you can be a sweet potato?”
  • “I yam what I yam, and that’s a sweet potato lover.”
  • “I’m best spuddies with this sweet potato.”
  • “If I could have one Thanksgiving dish for the rest of my life, it would be you.”
  • “I’ve never met a sweet potato I didn’t love.”
  • “Sweet potatoes are life.”
  • “In sweet potato we trust.”
  • “My life’s been taken over by sweet potatoes.”
  • “Crazy about these delicious sweet potatoes.”
  • “I want sweet potatoes all day everyday.”
  • “Perfect for Thanksgiving.”

Sweet Potato Puns

Uncooked sweet potatoes.

  • “You’re amazing! – From the sweet potatoes.”
  • “I yam always very happy to eat sweet potatoes.”
  • “Say this aloud: Eye Yam Stew Peed”
  • “Thanks to you, I’m saddled with unnecessary peelings.”
  • “What kind of potato do you want to take home to your parents? A sweet potato.”
  • “My love for you sprouts more and more everyday!”
  • “Where do I even starch? I yam so happy we’re best spuds!”
  • “Holy yam!”
  • “Happy Birthday to my best spud….get it?? Spud…bud??”
  • “What do you call an everyday potato? A commentater!”
  • “The sweet potato asked the other potato : “How are my eyes?”

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  • “Everything in this world is either a sweet potato or not a sweet potato.”
  • “Potatoes have skin. I have skin. Ergo, I am a potato.”
  • “What is a potato’s favorite baseball team? The New York Yamkees.”
  • “What is a potato’s life philosophy?I think, therefore I yam.”
  • “Why was the sweet potato too shy to ask out the russet potato? Because he was a real spud.”
  • “hat do you call a person who spends a lot of time sitting and staring at potatoes? A medi-tator.”
  • “A potato gave a gift to his girlfriend.She said, “Aww, why are you so sweet?”He said, “It’s just the way I yam.””
  • “What do you call a stolen yam?A hot potato.”
  • “Sweet potato puns are a-peeling.”

Sweet Potato Hashtags

  • #sweetpotato
  • #sweetpotatoes
  • #sweetpotatofries
  • #sweetpotatopie
  • #sweetpotatoe
  • #purplesweetpotato
  • #sweetpotatochips
  • #sweetpotatos
  • #sweetpotatoefries
  • #sweetpotatomash
  • #sweetpotatotoast
  • #bakedsweetpotato
  • #sweetpotatocasserole
  • #sweetpotatohash
  • #sweetpotatowedges
  • #sweetpotatocake
  • #roastedsweetpotatoes
  • #sweetpotatosoup
  • #sweetpotatopancakes
  • #sweetpotatonoodles
  • #mashedsweetpotatoes
  • #sweetpotatoepie
  • #sweetpotatobrownies
  • #japanesesweetpotato
  • #sweetpotatovine
  • #sweetpotatolatte
  • #sweetpotatopies
  • #roastedsweetpotato
  • #sweetpotatobread
  • #sweetpotatodiet

Taglines for Sweet Potatoes

Different types of sweet potatoes.

  • Make sweet things happen.
  • You deserve sweet potatoes.
  • Nothing like the taste of a sweet potato.
  • Filled with the good stuff.
  • Sweet potatoes for a sweet and healthy life.
  • Fresh quality sweet potatoes available here.
  • Our sweet potatoes are the best in the country.
  • Every family loves our sweet potatoes.
  • Our sweet potatoes are yamazing!
  • We got the yams you seek.
  • 100% organic. 100% fresh.
  • Get better value for what you eat.
  • Healthy diet starts with a sweet potato.
  • Buy our sweet potatoes for less!
  • Our yams are sweet, healthy and affordable.
  • These are the yams you’re looking for.
  • Eat sweet potatoes. Sleep. Repeat.
  • Get a taste of world-class yams.
  • The best yams in the market.
  • Our sweet potatoes aren’t just for Thanksgiving.

Sweet Potato Fry Captions

Sweet potato fries.

  • “The healthier fries.”
  • “The guilt-free snack.”
  • “These sweet potato fries are extra crispy!”
  • “It’s my choice for a snack.”

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  • “I can eat as much sweet potato fries as I want.”
  • “Sweet potato fries > guys.”
  • “Keep your friends close and your sweet potato fries closer.”
  • “Enjoy fry days.”
  • “There’s no we in fries.”
  • “Happier than a seagull with a fry.”

Sweet Potato Pie Quotes

  • “From now on it’s me and my sweet potato pie.” – Ray Charles and James Taylor (Sweet Potato Pie)
  • “Give me those autumn skies and sweet potato pies.”
  • “I’m a sweet eater. I love lemon pie and sweet potato pie.” – Claude Williams

“I’m a big cook and prefer to make meals at home when I can. I’m either cooking, or we’re going to a drive-through somewhere. I’m really proud of my homemade sweet potato pie. At Thanksgiving I make five of them because they go quick.” – Chandra Wilson

  • “I’ve got a filling I’m in love with this sweet potato pie.”
  • “Sweet potato pies are spudtacular.”
  • “One slice for you. The rest of the pie for me.”
  • “Decided to bake the world a better place, one sweet potato pie at a time.”
  • “You’re as sweet as sweet potato pie.”
  • “Any way you slice it, I’m eating this sweet potato pie.”

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