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  2. Yes, There Is A Big Difference Between Yams & Sweet Potatoes

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    "Sweet potatoes have a starchy texture and sweet flesh," Gavin said. "The major types are grouped by the color of the flesh, not by the skin." In the grocery store, you'll likely see orange, white ...

  3. Yams vs. Sweet Potatoes: What’s the Difference? - AOL

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    You wait all year to dig into your mom’s Thanksgiving yams with mini marshmallows. While they may be delicious, it turns out they aren’t yams at all. Even though the words “sweet...

  4. Sweet potato - Wikipedia

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    Sweet potatoes can also be called yams in North America. When soft varieties were first grown commercially there, there was a need to differentiate between the two. Enslaved Africans had already been calling the 'soft' sweet potatoes 'yams' because they resembled the unrelated yams in Africa. [8]

  5. Dioscorea alata - Wikipedia

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    Purple yams have edible tubers which have a mildly sweet, earthy and nutty taste, reminiscent of sweet potatoes or taro. The violet cultivars, in particular, turn dishes distinctively vivid violet because of the high amount of anthocyanins. [20] Purple yams are also valued for the starch that can be processed from them. [3]

  6. Yes, There Is A Big Difference Between Yams & Sweet Potatoes

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    Beyond the visual differences, yams and sweet potatoes have distinctive flavor profiles. "Yams are less sweet than sweet potatoes," Gavin said. "They have a more earthy, neutral profile. You'll ...

  7. List of sweet potato cultivars - Wikipedia

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    Even though these growers called their products yams, true yams are significantly different. All sweet potatoes are variations of one species: I. batatas. Yams are any of various tropical species of the genus Dioscorea. A yam tuber is starchier, dryer, and often larger than the storage root of a sweet potato, and the skin is more coarse. [3]

  8. How Can You Tell the Difference Between a Yam and Sweet ... - AOL

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    The History of Yams and Sweet Potatoes. Mixing up yams and sweet potatoes isn't anything new! The confusion can actually be traced back to the 1930s when Louisiana sweet potato growers decided to ...

  9. Is a yam a sweet potato? - AOL

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    A sweet potato is not a type of yam and a yam is not a type of sweet potato. Yams are native to Africa and Asia, and thus over 90% of yam crops are grown in Africa. They are closely related to lilies.