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Purple Japanese yams > American yams. From a taste profile to healthiness. It's not only sweet, the texture is slightly more firm and takes longer to cook and it has a lot of vitamins.
I prefer sweet potatoes over yams. They definitely are different. I've been exposed to both since I was a young girl. Yams taste more....hmm, bitter than sweet potatoes IMO.
Don't buy the canned ones! I used to buy them...but it is so easy to bake fresh ones, let them cool, and use them instead of canned. It really doesn't take a lot of work, just a little extra time.
I don't know the difference between the two. They taste the same to me. But when I was buying them in the can I always bought Bruce's yams.
Yeah, but I'm buying the canned ones becasue I'm putting them in a blender and mixing with apple juice + mixed veggies. I simply don't like eating healthy buy can manage to drink healthy
I think most of what we encounter in the US are sweet potatoes. Apparently they can call them yams on the can as long as the words "sweet potato" also appear somewhere on the can. There are different varieties of sweet potato, just to make it more confusing.
I would agree with you on the word "most".
With the proliferation of ethnic markets all over the country, I can purchase yams and sweet potatoes (and about 20 other root vegetables rarely found in the US 20 years ago) in most large cities. The yams are generally imported from the Caribbean and Central American countries.
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I guess the next discussion will be pumpkins vs. squash.
Where I grew up, "yam" was used colloquially for what were, in fact, sweet potatoes. That's no longer the case so much anymore, with expanded supermarket offerings bringing actual yams into more prominent availability since then.
*shrug* we also called cicadas "locusts," colloquially.
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