What is the diff between a sweet potatoe and a yam?!
Answers: Here's an easy couple of points. I'm too tired to do a search so will someone pls tell me the difference between a sweet potatoe and a yam?
We (Americans) use the terms yams and sweet potatoes interchangeably when in fact they are two totally different things. They are not even related. Sweet potatoes are originally a South American root vegetable (we now grow them here in the US) and yams are said to be from Africa. I am told that you can not get yams here in the states and they are much bigger/longer than sweet potatoes.
You can get sweet potato in a few colours; orange, purple etc. While yam is the one with the white flesh with lots and lots of tiny tiny purple stripes. Report It
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