What's the difference between Yam's and Sweetpotatoes?!
I heard that One is supposed to help with hot flashes but the other one doesn't!. Why!? Details=10!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
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Yes, you're right, but both help! I've read where most all tubular vegetables help reduce hot flashes, but soy products such as tofu have greater benefits!. These foods are also rich in plant compounds known as phytoestrogens, which seem to mimic some of the biological activities of female hormones such as estrogen!. As well as consuming soy and tofu products, women can also help combat hot flashes by eating more foods that are rich in calcium, magnesium and vitamin E such as cold-pressed oils, green leafy vegetables, nuts and almonds!. As well as plenty of mineral- and fiber-rich foods, like whole grains and fresh vegetables!. Women who suffer from hot flashes also could try adding sea vegetables to their diets, this seems to help tons!
Sweet Potatoes
Sweet potatoes, indigenous to Central America, are a totally different plant family from yams, as you’ll see in the chart below!. In fact, they are a member of the genus that contains morning glories, and when the plant is in flower, the flowers look like morning glories!. They are only distantly related to the potato, which is indigenous to Peru!. There are seven varieties of sweet potato!. The moist, sweet flesh can be white, yellow, orange or purple!. The smooth, thin skin can be orange-brown, red, purple or white!. Sweet potatoes are blocky, with tapered ends!.
Orange-fleshed sweet potatoes made their way north from Peru and Ecuador and have been grown by native Americans, and subsequently cultivated in the southern U!.S!., since Colonial times!. There are two different varieties of this sweet potato, which will explain why some sweet potatoes aren’t so sweet, or so colorful!. The paler-skinned sweet potato is softer with a thin, light yellow skin and pale yellow flesh; it has a dry, crumbly texture similar to a white baking potato!. The harder, darker-skinned sweet potato is that which we generally think of when we think of that sweet, orange flesh with the sweeter flavor!. These two varieties, commonly available in supermarkets, further confuse consumers!. Might the more orange-fleshed one be a sweet potato and the pale-fleshed one a yam!? Nope!.
Yams
Authentic yams are white-fleshed, starchy tubers that come from Africa!. They have rough, scaly skin and are long and cylindrical—some with a split bottom creating "toes!.” Their flesh is dry and starchy!. They grow long—at the extreme, up to seven feet in length—and are cut and sold in sections!.
Here’s how the colorful sweet potato, indigenous to South America, took on the name of the nyami (Anglicized to yam), the totally unrelated starchy tuber from Africa!.
The confusion began in the Antebellum era!. The African slaves called the softer sweet potatoes cultivated in America “yams” because they resembled the nyami they knew from home!. There were no nyami in America at the time: African and Caribbean immigrants wouldn’t cause import of real nyami, the white-fleshed African yam, to America until the latter 20th century, when they would appear in international grocery stores!. By that time, most of America had only known “yams” as yellow-fleshed potatoes that weren’t particularly sweet!. Some myths went so far as to say that yams were older sweet potatoes, after the sugar had converted to starch and the more colorful flesh had faded!.
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Sweet Potatoes
Sweet potatoes, indigenous to Central America, are a totally different plant family from yams, as you’ll see in the chart below!. In fact, they are a member of the genus that contains morning glories, and when the plant is in flower, the flowers look like morning glories!. They are only distantly related to the potato, which is indigenous to Peru!. There are seven varieties of sweet potato!. The moist, sweet flesh can be white, yellow, orange or purple!. The smooth, thin skin can be orange-brown, red, purple or white!. Sweet potatoes are blocky, with tapered ends!.
Orange-fleshed sweet potatoes made their way north from Peru and Ecuador and have been grown by native Americans, and subsequently cultivated in the southern U!.S!., since Colonial times!. There are two different varieties of this sweet potato, which will explain why some sweet potatoes aren’t so sweet, or so colorful!. The paler-skinned sweet potato is softer with a thin, light yellow skin and pale yellow flesh; it has a dry, crumbly texture similar to a white baking potato!. The harder, darker-skinned sweet potato is that which we generally think of when we think of that sweet, orange flesh with the sweeter flavor!. These two varieties, commonly available in supermarkets, further confuse consumers!. Might the more orange-fleshed one be a sweet potato and the pale-fleshed one a yam!? Nope!.
Yams
Authentic yams are white-fleshed, starchy tubers that come from Africa!. They have rough, scaly skin and are long and cylindrical—some with a split bottom creating "toes!.” Their flesh is dry and starchy!. They grow long—at the extreme, up to seven feet in length—and are cut and sold in sections!.
Here’s how the colorful sweet potato, indigenous to South America, took on the name of the nyami (Anglicized to yam), the totally unrelated starchy tuber from Africa!.
The confusion began in the Antebellum era!. The African slaves called the softer sweet potatoes cultivated in America “yams” because they resembled the nyami they knew from home!. There were no nyami in America at the time: African and Caribbean immigrants wouldn’t cause import of real nyami, the white-fleshed African yam, to America until the latter 20th century, when they would appear in international grocery stores!. By that time, most of America had only known “yams” as yellow-fleshed potatoes that weren’t particularly sweet!. Some myths went so far as to say that yams were older sweet potatoes, after the sugar had converted to starch and the more colorful flesh had faded!.
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Yams
Yams are closely related to lilies and grasses!. Native to Africa and Asia, yams vary in size from that of a small potato to a record 130 pounds (as of 1999)!. There are over 600 varieties of yams and 95% of these crops are grown in Africa!. Compared to sweet potatoes, yams are starchier and drier!.
Sweet Potatoes
The many varieties of sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) are members of the morning glory family, Convolvulacea!. The skin color can range from white to yellow, red, purple or brown!. The flesh also ranges in color from white to yellow, orange, or orange-red!. Sweet potato varieties are classified as either ‘firm’ or ‘soft’!. When cooked, those in the ‘firm’ category remain firm, while ‘soft’ varieties become soft and moist!. It is the ‘soft’ varieties that are often labeled as yams in the United States!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Yams are closely related to lilies and grasses!. Native to Africa and Asia, yams vary in size from that of a small potato to a record 130 pounds (as of 1999)!. There are over 600 varieties of yams and 95% of these crops are grown in Africa!. Compared to sweet potatoes, yams are starchier and drier!.
Sweet Potatoes
The many varieties of sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) are members of the morning glory family, Convolvulacea!. The skin color can range from white to yellow, red, purple or brown!. The flesh also ranges in color from white to yellow, orange, or orange-red!. Sweet potato varieties are classified as either ‘firm’ or ‘soft’!. When cooked, those in the ‘firm’ category remain firm, while ‘soft’ varieties become soft and moist!. It is the ‘soft’ varieties that are often labeled as yams in the United States!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Yams are a South American and African root vegetable!. For some reason people in the states started applying the term to sweet potatoes!. If you live it the states, you've probably never had or have even seen a "yam"!.
I also suspect that sweet potatoes are called yams more often in certain areas than others!. My family never said yam!. We always had "sweet potatoes"!.
Look up yams in Wiki to see what they really look like!. The *$&#* thing won't let me post a link again!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I also suspect that sweet potatoes are called yams more often in certain areas than others!. My family never said yam!. We always had "sweet potatoes"!.
Look up yams in Wiki to see what they really look like!. The *$&#* thing won't let me post a link again!.Www@FoodAQ@Com