what's the difference between a sweet potatto,and,a yam.?

Answer 1

It's usually the same.
But if you want to get technical,
they come from different origins.
Sweet potatoes are more tropical while yams are found in Asia and Africa. A potato is smooth and a yam is scaly.

Answer 2

Yams are native to Asia and Africa and have thick skin and flesh that is white, orange or purple. They are often used as a starch, much as we use bread or pasta. In fact, yams are one of the most important food crops in the tropics and subtropical countries. Yams are usually boiled, baked, fried as chips or grated and steamed for breads and cakes.

Sweet potatoes are available in two primary varieties. One has tan skin and dry yellow flesh; the other, darker-skinned variety has sweet orange flesh and is often mistakenly called a yam. Sweet potatoes are what most people in the United States eat.

Answer 3

You got the correct answers, yam is from Africa sweet potato from South America. When I was a kid though we called the yellow fleshed sweet potato a sweet potato. The orange fleshed a yam. I prefer the yellow but never see them in the stores anymore.

Answer 4

The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas), commonly called a yam in parts of the United States (especially in the southern and western portions of the country; this terminology causes some confusion with true yams) is a crop plant whose large, starchy, sweet tasting tuberous roots are an important root vegetable

Yam is the common name for some species in the genus Dioscorea (family Dioscoreaceae). These are perennial herbaceous vines cultivated for the consumption of their starchy tubers in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Oceania. They are used in a fashion similar to potatoes and sweet potatoes

Answer 5

a sweet potato is called a kumara, nothing like a yam, its skin is purple and its yellowish inside and when cooked its very sweet. and can be used to make desserts as well as cakes and muffins

Answer 6

Just the name. It's the same plant.