Carver developed dozens of products from local crops, in particular the highly nutritious peanut and sweet potato. He believed these two crops could provide a balanced diet. By-products include foods and beverages, and paints and dyes. Carver also developed livestock foods, cosmetics, and medicinal preparations.

Commercially developed sweet potato products as a result of Dr. Carver's work Sweet Potato flour (Specimen jar) Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site TUIN 1995 Sweet Potato Feed [Anthrophyta/Sp.name: Ipomoca Batatas] By-product of sweet potato starch. Label reads "RESEARCH PRODUCT SOUTHERN REGIONAL RESEARCH LABORATORY NEW ORLEANS, LA." H 11 cm, D 4.8 cm Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site TUIN 1467 Sweet Potato Starch Commercially produced sweet potato start that was developed as a result of Dr. Carver's experiments. LABEL READS "RESEARCH PRODUCT SOUTHERN REGIONAL RESEARCH LABORATORY, NEW ORLEANS, LA." H 11 cm, D 4.8 cm Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site TUIN 1466 Sweet Potato Pulp Sweet potato pulp animal feed that containing 12% protein developed using an experimental waste water process. LABEL READS "RESEARCH PRODUCT SOUTHERN REGIONAL RESEARCH LABORATORY NEW ORLEANS, LA." H 11 cm, D 4.8 cm Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site TUIN 1468 Close Window