You'll never guess: the difference between yams and sweet potatoes

1/10/2017

Culture Story: You'll never guess: the difference between yams and sweet potatoes

There are so many similar products, but still they have differences. For example, yams and sweet potatoes. Why do we need them both and what is their history? Just watch this exciting video to find out the most interesting things about these tubers!

What vegetable do you like the most? Have you ever thought about this difference? Share your impressions in the comments below!

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30 Comments

Kat Frederick

ANITA CALPITO...Nope, they're not the same thing, at all. I've known this, for years. Yams don't grow here! They only grow in places, like Africa, Asia, Central and South America, and Oceania. So, what people, here, in the USA call Yams, are actually Sweet Taters! I love Sweet Tater Pie! :)

Tom Ayer

The difference is the name no just kidding. The Lady with all the facts was quite an actress maybe do some Shakespeare's I'll by a ticket.

Flo Standell

Wrong other way aroundErnesto S Rodriguez,

auvalish

Nice to know

Ed Bona

Taste the same to me.

Wanda Holl

Thank you for clarifying the differences between yams and sweet potatoes.I knew that yams were white inside and sweet potatoes were orange ,but I didn't know yams are indigenous to Africa,thus causing the confusion.

Carl Rosignol

Man, must not be dead, still learning stuff

Marion David Mooney

Both are the tubers of flowering plants

Connie Hurley

Thanks for the information. I also thought they were the same thing, just a different variety.

Noel Dsouza

Yam has a thick coarse covering, a sweet potato has a rather smooth skin

Carol Perkins

I'll tell you the difference. Yams are good, sweet potatoes are not.

Gail Beamon

I don't care for yams love sweet potatoes.Not too long ago I found out the difference I only know I like the orange one.lol

Christa Bruederlin

good one spencer

candice_walker

For us Jamaicans, yam is the larger one and we don't call the other one sweet potato

Ron Barnes

Interesting and funny at same time. What I take from the video is that living in the US, I've never tasted a yam. LOL

Carole Ann Loll

Glad to know the difference at long last.

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