They can be found in national or international food stores. Yams are imported and hardly found in local grocery stores. They be likely to have a good shelf life. Their taste is also different and unique as they are less sweet than sweet potatoes. Yams are starchier and drier than sweet potatoes.
#YAMS VS SWEET POTATOES SKIN#
Yams have a tubular shape with blackish, brown, white, or rough bark-like skin that’s difficult to peel but they soften after cooking. Over 600 varieties of yams are well-known, and 95% of these are still grown in Africa. To make it distinction from the white variety, producers and transporter chose the English form of Nyami and labelled it to “yam”. Yams are native to Asia and Africa but the most of the produce coming from Africa and in Africa, it’s called “Nyami”. It is rough and scabby and very low in beta carotene. A true yam is a stuffy eatable root of the Dioscorea genus, and is usually imported to America from the Caribbean. It will help you out to pick the yam or sweet potato as per your need not because of your unawareness. Well, no more confusion so far because we’ll discuss about the difference yam and sweet potato. But the most importantly, mostly people don’t know the difference between them.
This is just because these both mean dissimilar things in grocery stores. By reading this article, you will know that all the times you supposed you were eating sweet potato, you were likely eating a yam and or you thought you were eating yam, you were eating a sweet potato. In US supermarkets, most vegetables written off as as a “yam” are actually just a variety of sweet potato. Although, they both are tuberous root vegetables but they are not linked with each other and don’t even have a lot in common. Sweet potatoes are not a sort of yam, and yams are not a kind of sweet potato, not at all. It is little bit difficult to find what is yam and what is sweet potatoes whereas their appearance is alike. Are you one of those who are bit confused to find the difference between yam and sweet potato? When you go for grocery, you might have seen that in some stores it’s labeled as yam and in some stores it’s categorized as sweet potatoes.
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