2006-11-22 13:43:09 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
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2006-11-25 18:39:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Depending on what you mean by "yams", the answer is either "not really", or "not at all". If you mean the orange-fleshed tubers that your supermarket labels yams, then it's the former: they're a specific variety of sweet potato, which are generally sweeter than the white-fleshed variety that your supermarket labels "sweet potatoes". If you mean the African tuber that is supposedly the origin of the word "yam", then it's the latter: the only thing the two have in common is a generic shape.
2006-11-22 13:53:33 · answer #2 · answered by Martha 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought i new before i clicked on answer but im not sure. Sweet P. are a certain type of potatoes but yams might be slang? Yup i was right... nobody wrote anything before i started writing this so i was surprised how many responces u can get in 30 seconds on here.
2006-11-22 13:45:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For all practical purposes in American cooking, yes. Actually no. They are two different species of plants. One is a tuber, the other is a tropical vine from the Carribean. Most Americans eat varieties of sweet potatoes; not true yams.
2006-11-22 13:45:53 · answer #4 · answered by hopflower 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope...sweet are practically the same size as the potato, they have a orange flesh and originated in South America. Yams are very large (can get as big as 7 feet long!) originated in Africa, have a whiteish flesh, are apart of the lily family and are NOT sweet.
2006-11-22 13:50:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, the orange yams (which are not really yams, they are just a different breed of potatoes) are sweeter than the tan sweet potatoes
2006-11-22 13:46:00 · answer #6 · answered by parental unit 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no technically they're not, people use the two words interchangably but yams are really a long white tubar from africa. when african slaves were brought to america they saw the sweet potatoes and called them things that they were used to: hense sweet potatoes being called yams.
2006-11-22 13:45:24 · answer #7 · answered by 7 Words You Can't Say On T.V 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yam:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yam_%28vegetable%29
Sweet Potatoes:
Related too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato
2006-11-22 17:48:21 · answer #8 · answered by jrealitytv 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think,i know they taste the same..yuk!
2006-11-22 13:46:01 · answer #9 · answered by I Bleed Black & Gold 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no not really.
2006-11-22 13:45:34 · answer #10 · answered by scm82 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋