The Skinny on Sweet Potatoes
Sweet potatoes and yams are actually two very different vegetables.
While American grocery stores use the terms interchangeably, what they are always referring to is actually a sweet potato, not a yam. Garnet Yams and Jewel Yams, for instance, aren’t yams at all — they’re sweet potatoes! Candied Yams? Nope, sweet potatoes. Confused yet?
In fact, chances are that you’ll never accidentally buy an actual yam instead of a sweet potato at your local grocery. You can find “true” yams as well as other varities of sweet potatoes in Caribbean and Asian specialty grocery stores.
1 comments:
can you tell me if a garnet or jewel "yam" can have partially yellowish/white flesh? i cut one open and it was a third that color. i discarded that part because i wasn't sure if something was wrong with it!
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