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VividPotion6704

I thought yams and sweet potatoes were the same?

RojoNavigator

Interesting. I often get sweet potatoes and yams confused.

Player #T

I have both in the house & No they are not same thing. Looks different taste different.These are sweet potatoes

Laudy Miss Claudy

VividPotion6704, Sweet potatoes are long and thin. Yams are fatter in the middle and not as sweet.

Laudy Miss Claudy

And sweet potatoes make a delicious pie.

Syn

Player #1284040, I was raised that yams 🍠/sweet potatoes were the same thing! Yams are just colloquial!

Joy

Yams are so much less sweeter than sweet potatoes. They are not the same!!!

Marshall

The Maori in New Zealand call them kumara.

happydoghappycat

I love me some sweet potato. Every day I have one for lunch with a little butter and a small side salad

Phiend99

lily 21, thanks. I think many of us didn't know what made the difference.

Mouth🤪

My favorite ever to eat is probably sweet potatoes! Yum! Especially with sugar and butter mmmm!

Nhuca

The original sweet potatoes are light yellow inside and purple skin. They are the best!!

K K

it is really a yam

Nanna

They make beautiful house plants!

Daisy

Good for replacing potatoes if you're wanting to be a bit healthier as they have less starch

Bee

I refer to them as kumara, as it’s the Māori name for sweet potato here in New Zealand. They’re delicious! And whoever says that these and yams are the same….definitely not. I hate yams but kumara are amazing, especially roasted!

Mei Ling

Syn, I like sweet potatoes but not really yams

Mohit S

that is a tricky question but a good ones 😃

Jennyzim

In Australia sweet potatoes are very popular - they’re the orange ones, while yams (much less popular in the southern states) are whitish in colour.

Lady of the Lake

Sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) are sweeter with a smooth, thin skin. They are short and blocky with tapered ends. U.S.-grown sweet potatoes usually are copper, rose, red or purple with orange, white, or purple flesh. Yams (Dioscorea sp.) are starchy with a rough, scaly skin. They are longer and more cylindrical with protruding flesh that some call “toes.” They can range from Irish potato-size to 5 feet long and weigh up to 100 pounds. They are also botanically different. Sweet potatoes belong to the morning glory family of plants, called the Convolvulaceae family. Yams belong to a different family, called Dioscoreaceae. The edible parts of sweet potatoes are called roots, and yams are classified as tubers. Sweet potato plants are more prolific, producing 4-10 roots per plant. Yams produce just 1-5 tubers per plant. You won’t find many true yams in U.S. grocery stores because they require specific growing conditions found in the Caribbean. Yams are commonly grown in Africa, South America, and Central America. Although you can find canned potatoes that are marketed as yams, you’ll notice that they are also labeled as sweet potatoes and the first ingredient is sweet potatoes. The U.S. Department of Agriculture requires this dual labeling when sweet potatoes are labeled as yams.