Yams vs Sweet Potatoes

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[@jacinthvirgo5970]

In Jamaica we use Yellow yam & sweet potatoes but sweet potato is sweet while yellow yam can be nice & dry even semi-dry they are surely different in look & taste.

[@SunnyGhandle]

The Jamaican sweet potato also has more of a whiter flesh.

[@kevinwilson3337]

I’m Caribbean and I never seen a yam with yellow flesh . All yams in my island is white flesh and slimy

[@daisymae749]

Thanks for clearing that up! 😉

[@FreshDougan]

I've literally had a 30 minute long argument about this at a whole foods once. Those garnet sweet potatoes ain't yams!

[@birdchoyce4332]

I just had a disagreement with my sister about this same issue. She refuses to trust that anyone on UA-cam knows the truth. I tried to give her the Google information to no avail 😧

[@kingakuma7]

I think the confusion comes from a dish called candy yams, but made with Sweet potatoes.

[@neema1]

And the yams have a very unique flavor. It takes ages to cook too

[@D7cooper]

Thanks for explaining the difference.

[@shivnegi6614]

In India it's called SAKARGANDI

[@BeautifulEarthJa]

Amen.

[@viviandasilva8520]

You’re so right because I am from Brazil 🇧🇷 and my grandmother used to cook yams that used to be found in our yard… good for respiratory problems and even accelerate Amune system..

[@Raquel-rj1gd]

THIS.... Is a true yam.
I love this, thank you 🥰

[@rustyspygoat4089]

Exactly. When black people from Africa arrived in the USA, they came across the Sweet potato. And it was close enough, so they started calling it a yam and that's where the mixup happened.

[@steffhall-w1m]

I absolutely totally agree. From a true Jamaican!

[@carolinatudela3100]

It just dawned to me that we do have yams in Brazil that look exactly like the one you show (albeit smaller) and we call them inhame, which sounds pretty much like yam 😅

[@jess.e.s]

i’m addition to the Guinea yam there is also the Ghana yam 🇬🇭 that has the same outer skin but a lot more hard and starchy. also can be as long as your forearm ☺️

[@kevinwilson3337]

Are these yams sweet in taste ?

[@AfroSamurai215]

​@@kevinwilson3337No.

[@haroldferguson5424]

T-H-A-N-K _ Y-O-U!!! I've been telling people this for years!

[@malayjia1023]

Thank you for educating me because as a black person I’ve been calling it that my whole life and I need to know the correct terms❤😅

[@candid0111]

Love boiled yams and saltfish as a Trini

[@miguelayala3374]

Could've just said sweet potatoes are orange and look like potatoes but I'm sure a history lesson will reach us equally the same...💀

[@ADHDvato86]

Thank you .

[@prettynoose8497]

I have not seen her content for a few years now. She is still so beautiful as ever!

[@MrTone0113]

Thank you! Because I swear they label sweet potatoes as yams in our store. I was so confuse especially cuz it was my first time looking for sweet potatoes.

[@humanbeing4368]

Purple yam is where it’s at! 😋

[@ScoopAnthony]

You mean Ube

[@humanbeing4368]

@@ScoopAnthony Learn the difference between the two before typing false information.

[@Jm-ue8ze]

That ñame amarillo grows a lot in the dominican republic miches🇩🇴🙌🏽

[@drunkenmonk-pb1gq]

Visit Maldives

[@marwahossam7975]

I fell in love with your voice and character 🤤

[@celestwaker7848]

Very interesting!

[@meikadorsey9161]

Thanks sis for telling it like it is❤

[@Lillyxxxo]

Wow I never knew this. Thanks for sharing

[@odhiamboomulo5937]

If you think this is confusing, come to Kenya and meet miss cassava and her friend arrow roots 😅

[@rohandutta1140]

Let us know all the foods in Africa that doesn't require fertilizers & can be grown in harsh climate.

[@ItsMeBonnieBillionz]

🧐 🤔 Learn something new every day!! Thanks ❤

[@LukeTheringMusic]

I yam what I yam

[@kiasmn]

Never knew that. Thanks

[@vannitywinston1971]

So how do we cook the white one....

[@jaya86527]

Very difficult to digest

[@AlexanderHannah-dh1yn]

Well here in America we call them yams soooo.

[@gorgeousley19]

Exactly, those foreigners always trying to impose the stuff on us. We gonna call the yam a yam and if they don’t like it they can go back to their damn country.

[@Mary-uz2tz]

What is a Japanese sweet potato?

[@SweetPotatoSoul]

It's a different variety of sweet potato!

[@Ibochic1]

Thank you! Always annoys me to hear people (esp Americans) call sweet potatoes, “yams”. 😅

[@FalconsZone6]

Yam and sweet potato same thing

[@dionnbrooks4045]

Nice

[@Wolf-xu1fj]

Did you show two different kinds of sweet potatoes? The white flesh and the orange flesh? I think people call the orange flesh sweet potatoes and the white flesh yams, but they’re both sweet potatoes?

[@Oysters176]

The only thing that tastes like sweet potatoes to my knowledge is silverweed.

[@ekiratomi]

calm but strike 😂

[@lvquan6660]

I told my black friend she's eating candied sweet potatoes not yams before

[@pamelamcd7652]

I yam what I yam!🍠

[@pigpill]

So many people I know just call white skin sweet potatoes "yams". So frustrating

[@AroundTheWayGirl88]

Did you buy the yams at a local grocery store or farmers market?

[@SweetPotatoSoul]

Farmers market!

[@yumboyakk9002]

She got them yams 😂😂

[@gabconales4674]

Yam vs sweet potato..
I'll go for sweet potato. Sweet potato are have more healthy food than yam. But just remember that you're true yum than both😊

[@charastoneham3640]

When will you start doing videos again?

[@chetan4yt]

nice sharing 👍

[@Hari-tv]

Casava?

[@nishanbaaz1]

That might be a yam, but she is yum!! 😉

[@chaos1836]

YAM!?? 🍠

[@Mel-mi3fd]

❤

[@FckedByYLss]

I came from the wimpy kid movie lol

[@ChrisBrown-ot6bz]

Never you forget yaad/Caribbean see bolt living proof yam mek u trong like 50 lion

[@mariorodriguez9628]

There are also purple true yams, ube yam.

[@VeggieVllc]

Drives me crazy when people call sweet potatoes yams 😂

[@bholmes-17]

Just a type of potato

[@beejones0509]

Be careful lingering in the juice or eating the white part raw…it will likely give you an allergic reaction. 😂😂 Yes I did it, saw my life flashing before me. I had take charcoal.

[@SweetPotatoSoul]

Oh wow! Hope you're okay!

[@cireeternale5176]

Wow... thank you.
*side note* You look vibrantly amazing 🤩

[@SweetPotatoSoul]

Oh thank you!

[@user-lw3qv8dw8h]

Caribbeans have been eating yams for decades that's nothing new we have yellow yams white yams purple yams, purple sweet potato, orange sweet potato we call them all provisions, some people new to this, not the Caribbean Region we make all kinds of dishes with those provisions

[@bmack7762]

So you're tell everyone to quit their yammering?

[@casperclaiborne4527]

There called yams due to slavery.
It was a substitute for the yam.
The American black slave is why they are called yams, also haitian and all surrounding island slaves that cane here by way of slavery

[@Lolqueen-v6i]

Omg they look like that???

[@SweetPotatoSoul]

Crazy right?!

[@drunkenmonk-pb1gq]

That is not even a true yam 😊