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Re: Is a sweet potato the same as a Yam?       03/08/05 03:35 PM Edit Reply Quote retrograde Reged: 04/15/04 Posts: 1569 Pretty much any kind you find in north american grocery stores are going to be sweet potatoes, though they sometimes incorrectly label them yams. There are two varieties of sweet potatoes - one orange fleshed and one yellow fleshed. Sometimes they display one as sweet potatoes and the other next to it as yams, but they're really both sweet potatoes, just different varieties. It's really one of those cross-cultural mistakes made way back - 'real' yams are actually from a totally different family as sweet potatoes and are pretty much only grow in Africa and some parts of Asia. 'Real' yams have thick black skins with white flesh, are really hard and often bland and dry - oh yeah, and they're HUGE (up to 100 lbs! ) Moral of the story - in North America, the two words (yam and sweet potato) are pretty much interchangeable. Even if we do have it all wrong Ok that's your produce/history lesson for the day! lol Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator

Entire thread Is a sweet potato the same as a Yam? Lana_Marie 03/08/05 03:03 PM Re: Is a sweet potato the same as a Yam? retrograde 03/08/05 03:35 PM Re: Is a sweet potato the same as a Yam? Lana_Marie 03/08/05 07:03 PM Re: Is a sweet potato the same as a Yam? Little Minnie 03/08/05 03:09 PM

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