What's the difference????!
Answers: What is the difference between sweet potato and yams and which do you like best?
yams and sweet potatoes are unrelated vegetables, though in both cases you're eating the root of a tropical vine. Sweet potatoes, Ipomoea batatas ("batata" is the original Taino name, whence potato), are an American plant of the morning glory family, whereas yams are of the genus Dioscorea. Yams, which are rarely seen in the U.S. and Canada but are a staple in tropical regions, can grow up to seven feet in length.I dont care for either.
They are the same thing - just 2 different names for it.
I always thought that they were two different things but i prefer sweet potatoes because you can make sweet potato pie for THANKSGIVING! ;)
I like Sweet Potatoes better.
sweet potato - grown for its sweet, edible, tuberous roots
yam - the starchy, tuberous root
Both are a tuber and they are interchangeable in recipes but a sweet potato is a true potato where a yam is not even related to the potato family. Sweet potatoes are a New World crop native to South America and yams are native to Africa. Sweet potatoes have a higher sugar/starch content and are not stringy inside where yams tend to be stringy. Both are good but I prefer sweet potatoes.
REMEMBER this: sweet potatoes are better and USUALLY cost less.