Farmers called orange tubers yams to differentiate them from the white ... blended into savory steamed cakes, and more. You can find wild Chinese yams pre-sliced and sun-dried in Chinese grocery ...

One of the pillars of the Okinawan diet, Okinawan imo is a supercharged purple sweet potato, a cousin of the common yellow-orange varieties ... serve sweet potatoes steamed, which perfectly ...

To complicate things further, there are a handful of sweet potato varieties in a wide range of colors, including orange, white, and purple. We had Heck break down the differences for us.

In most cases, the “yams” sold in grocery stores are actually orange-coloured sweet potatoes. The sweet potato is related to the morning glory family; it has orange flesh and its skin can be ...

Sweet potatoes or yams? Trick question. Despite what millions of Americans (and many groceries) may call them, those dark orange, moist root vegetables that you roast in sugar syrup and top with ...

Then what’s a yam? Where did the yam and sweet potato mix-up come from? Discussions on the proper name for the orange starchy stuff on your table can get more heated than arguments about topping ...