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But why does the Sprouts website say, "You may never come across a true yam" with a photo of the difference between them if they sell them? All the photos they have of "yams" that they sell are sweet potatoes. Unless they carry them occasionally and don't list them on the website, which is possible.
I don’t know, but I recall it has 3 signs, sweet potato, then yam, then purple potato, the Japanese type. The yam is much more orange. I grew yam before so I don’t think I was buying sweet potato.
Ok, I did some googling of pictures of true yam in Africa, they are huge tubers. I don’t think I ever saw them before. So my whole life I’ve been eating sweet potato.
Last edited by NewbieHere; 11-25-2018 at 11:07 AM..
True yams are very hard to buy in the US. They look completely different. Yams have a cylindrical shape with blackish or brown, bark-like skin and white, purple, or reddish flesh.
They have an earthy, hardy taste and usually a minimal amount of sweetness, and can be used much in the same way as a regular potato.
True yams grow in Africa, and while they are rare, it's possible to find true yams in ethnic (Asian and African) markets.
BTW: what's called a Mexican yam is what we know as jicama, and a whole other story.
Mine are stringy, but I’ve check out the true yams from the farmers market. They come from Fresno and they grow them in a green house. They even sell yam leaves. But I guess after some googling, it’s not really true yam, it’s sweet potato.
But I’ve always known jicama as jicama, not as anything close to yam. It’s not even orange. It’s white and crunchy.
Last edited by NewbieHere; 11-25-2018 at 11:08 AM..
I always had the Yam/sweet potato thing going on too until I lived in CA and at the store there they had sweet potatoes that were almost white and very good.
I buy a few and bake them all at once and then just microwave them as I want one.
Details please, Mightyqueen -- baked how long at what temperature?
Do you bake them slightly less time given that they're going to be heated again in the microwave?
Sweet potatoes are potatoes. Yams are like a root more than tuber, and have a stringy flesh.
Actually they are not, they are from a different plant family than actual potatoes. Just to confuse things even further.
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