2007-04-05 13:48:02 · 10 answers · asked by martha b 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
They are both vegetables. And they have different nutritional values... completely.
SEW did that help?
2007-04-05 13:52:18 · answer #1 · answered by H.O.T. Dog 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A vegetable. In 1992, the Center for Science in the Public Interest compared the nutritional value of sweet potatoes to other vegetables. Considering fiber content, complex carbohydrates, protein, vitamins A and C, iron, and calcium, the sweet potato ranked highest in nutritional value. According to these criteria, sweet potatoes earned 184 points, 100 points over the next on the list, the common potato.
2007-04-05 13:54:38 · answer #2 · answered by dan_in_la 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A sweet potato is a root vegetable, or tuber. There is a type that resembles the "white potato", but the ones we know are deep orange. Maybe this will help explain things...
Sweet Potatoes
Popular in the American South, these yellow or orange tubers are elongated with ends that taper to a point and are of two dominant types. The paler-skinned sweet potato has a
thin, light yellow skin with pale yellow flesh which is not sweet and has a dry, crumbly texture similar to a white baking potato. The darker-skinned variety (which is most often called "yam" in error) has a thicker, dark orange to reddish skin with a vivid orange, sweet flesh and a moist texture.
FYI: sweet potatoes and yams are two different things and aren't even related, but we tend to use the words interchangeably.
http://homecooking.about.com/od/howtocookvegetables/a/sweetpotatodiff.htm
2007-04-05 13:59:42 · answer #3 · answered by margarita 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Both Sweet Potatoes and White Potatoes are vegetables.
2. Both are tubers and grow underground.
3 They are just different varieties of POTATOES.
4. THE sweet potato is orange in color and sweeter than the whites.
5. The both have starch.
2007-04-05 14:31:14 · answer #4 · answered by Brick 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is starchy, more like a regular potato than anything else. It has a very nice flavor, something like a carrot. It's also high in beta carotene and anti-oxidants. Very tasty with lots of butter on it, but then that drives up the fat content. Be careful about what you put on it and it's a very healthy food.
2007-04-05 13:58:55 · answer #5 · answered by carguy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a veggie and fruit in one but they marked it as veggie''its the species of Potato the Cousins of idaho potato''because of the fertile tropical climate and rainforest that make this a sweet potato''or reflects to a hospitality of the region
2007-04-05 14:00:22 · answer #6 · answered by etanmi4 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, i found out it does actually have more starch than a regular russet potato.
2007-04-05 13:54:40 · answer #7 · answered by lachefderouge 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No not starchy, no fat, no colesterol very good for you, A veg.
2007-04-05 13:52:22 · answer #8 · answered by swamp elf 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well a potato is a veggie so what other opion is there?
2007-04-05 13:59:20 · answer #9 · answered by LiL Mz M3 B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
veggie.
2007-04-05 14:04:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋