Sweet Potato at the supermarket

Averaging $3.44/kg right now  (23/04/2026)

→ 0.4% per month

Price is stable at 0.4% per month

Sweet Potato
Current avg
$3.44
per kg
Tracked at
2 shops
of 4 retailers

12-month price history

Monthly average with min/max range band. Data from Woolworths, Coles, Aldi, and IGA.

10 months of data  ·  Last updated: 23/04/2026 22:00

Grow-vs-buy savings

A sweet potato slips (rooted shoots) or a supermarket tuber costs around $5 and should give you roughly 3kg after about 5 months in typical home conditions. At today's price of $3.44/kg that's $10.32 worth at the supermarket.

You spend
$5
Sweet potato slips (rooted shoots) or a supermarket tuber
Shop would charge
$10.32
for ~3kg
You save
$5.32
2.1× return

Before you buy: Grown from 'slips' — shoots grown from a mother tuber. Easy to make your own by partly burying a supermarket sweet potato in moist sand. Needs a long warm season.

Realistic yield: One plant 1-4 kg of tubers. Vines are rampant — allow space.

Ballpark numbers — yield varies by climate, variety, care and luck. Use as a rough indicator, not a business plan.

Today at each retailer

CHEAPEST
Aldi
$2.99
Gold Sweet Potatoes Loose
Woolworths
$3.90
Sweet Potato Gold

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Pests to watch for

Australian pests and diseases that target sweet potato. Full library.

Whitefly (Silverleaf and Greenhouse) high
Bemisia tabaci; Trialeurodes vaporariorum
Peak this month
Rats and Mice moderate
Rattus rattus; Rattus norvegicus; Mus musculus
Peak this month