Now that you know a little more about sweet potatoes and yams, it's easy to see that they're actually two different vegetables. They look different, they taste different, and they grow differently, ...

“What’s in a name?” William Shakespeare once wrote. “Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet?” It’s a valid point for sure… unless we’re talking about sweet potatoes. Because one by its other ...

It’s a celebration that happens once every year, it’s called the New Yam Festival. It’s a very big deal when it comes to new yam because a lot of food that we eat evolves around yam,” said Emeka. In ...

LIVINGSTON, Calif. — It happens every Thanksgiving. You head to the grocery store to shop for the big day. Of course, you’ll need to buy yams for the family’s favorite ...

Thanksgiving is quickly approaching, but there remains some confusion about a dinner table staple: the difference between sweet potatoes and yams. Skip to content NOWCAST KCRA 3 News at 5pm ...

The USDA allows orange-fleshed sweet potatoes to be called yams to differentiate them from white-fleshed sweet potatoes. In our opinion, this is the only proper way to reheat a potato. 2 / 9.

Native to the tropical parts of Central and South America, this dicot (two-seed leaves, like tomatoes and maples) is a vining plant that forms a large, dense, and often orange-fleshed tuber.

Yam vs. Sweet Potato. A yam is a starchy root vegetable in the Dioscoreaceae (yam) family that has white or purple flesh with rough, bark-like skin and a neutral, sometimes earthy, flavor.