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Caiapo is a form of white sweet potato cultivated in a mountainous region of Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. An extract of the skin of the root has been used as a nutraceutical for type 2 diabetes in Japan.¹¹⁶ Caiapo has been eaten raw because of the belief that it may help diabetes, hypertension, and anemia. Caiapo also grows in the mountains of South America, and it has also been used by Native Americans to decrease “thirst and weight loss,” possible symptoms of diabetes.¹¹⁷