If you thought yams and sweet potatoes were the same thing, think again! While the two root vegetables might appear to be similar (largely in part to grocery stores mislabeling them), the difference ...

While some may use sweet potato and yam interchangeably, botanically speaking, they are completely different vegetables. Yams are in the family Dioscoreaceae, which contains hundreds of species of ...

A rose is a rose … but a yam is not a sweet potato. It might even be possible you’ve never tasted a real yam. Those “candied yams” you serve on Thanksgiving probably are sweet potatoes. Most people ...

Sweet potatoes are often called yams, but they are actually two completely different vegetables. Yams are tubers with rough, brown skin that are grown in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. Sweet ...

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While some may use sweet potato and yam interchangeably, botanically speaking, they are completely different vegetables. Yams are in the family Dioscoreaceae, which contains hundreds of species of ...