Tell the difference between butternut squash and sweet potato?!
Answers:
The more orangey/yellow one would be the butternut squash while the deep reddish orange one would be the sweet potato.
11+ years working in produce.
If they're already cooked, and by "sweet potato" they mean the lightest of the yam/sweet potato family, then generally the butternut squash would be a deeper orange (and richer, moister tasting) where the sweet potato would be more of a yellowish or light orange color and taste a bit drier (if it hadn't absorbed any added liquids from before).
Squash is a vegetable that grows above the ground.
Sweet potato is a tuber.
Orange - squash
Pink - sweet potato
the squash grows above ground and the potato below ground, the squash is more watery than the potato .