What do yams taste like?

[GB]

And Another

 

[Gretchen]

They are all sweet potatoes. Garnet are beautiful--grown a lot in SC. Stores just call them what they want.

 

[Anau]

Lets just say; There is a yam and a sweet potatoe, they are the same size. How do you tell them apart?

From what I can tell, sweet potatoes alway have tapered ends while yams can be either rounded and oblong or just globular. Sometimes I see yams that are branched too. If you get a chance to see the plants themselves, yams are climbing vines and sweet potatoes creep along the ground.

Also, sweet potatoes come in a variety of colors from maroon to orange while yams are pretty much always brown skinned. In the Philippines, there's something called ube that's a variety of yam that has deep purple flesh and is used in desserts. I've had ube icecream that was really tastey.

 

[middie]

No yams here in Ohio either.

 

[jpmcgrew]

Most grocery stores mistakenly call sweet potatoes yams, I think the canned yams are also actually sweet potatoes