Don't trust grocery stores when buying this 

Search for ñame(niame) lila its the same thing i think.

Ube is considered invasive that why you can't get fresh uhe in the US. Fresh is banned.

check if you can grow them in your state since its considered to be invasive by some, and check your hardiness zone, it can only be grown in zones 9-11, see if anyone is offering any tubers or bulbils

They know what ube is, they are just scamming people

Tri Ocean Market in Denver has what I believe is real ube but is called Purple Ñame. It looks just like real ube!

Okinawa is a real place???

@@Ali-fb5km you’re joking right…?

@@Omnipotent_Azathoth I have to be honest, no

@@Ali-fb5km oh!

@@Ali-fb5km to clarify, yes, Okinawa is a real place.

Some people don’t know the difference as a black woman we know it’s mostly yt people who are confused

​​@She-She shares lol black people get them mixed up all the time too what are you talking about

You also see kumara confused with sweet potatoes here in Australia. They are neither a yam nor a sweet potato. Native to New Zealand,they are the tuber of a vine and taste really similar to roast chestnuts.

​@@triarb5790 I'm 0 years old today learning what a kumara is. Never heard of it as I'm from SE Asia. Greetings

@@triarb5790 kūmara is sweet potato… the confusion is that sweet potatoes aren’t related to potatoes. kūmara also isn’t native to new zealand, it was introduced by polynesian settlers.

And the purple veggies are packed with nutrients so thats another bonus. Purple carrots, potatoes, asparagus, cauliflower, rice, ect

Ok but the world also has just as many god awful things.

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What about red cabbage? It's purple

@@malcador how there nothing op could of lied about

My fellow Nigerian😍

What does it taste like?

​@@royabrown8774a mix between an avocado and a pear. It can be roasted or boiled. Its buttery and savory in flavor.

A Nigerian from Opobo town in Rivers State in da building and we also call it ube, thought ube is the igbo name for that thing, we use it to eat corn, whether boiled or roasted.

Our own dear Ube. Eat ube with ọkà (maize). Yummy. Full of healthy oils. ❤️❤️❤️

Yeah I searched it up and it said what she called a sweet potato is a yam so I’m confused now 😂

Sweet potato DOES NOT taste anything like ube. I'm saying this as a Filipino myself. They smell very different too. Also, you can't turn sweet potato into ice cream.

Oh thats strange! I know yam is a type of sweet potato, but considering we dont even call them that here in NZ that sounds so confusing 😭

@@neomawzz Yam is not a type of sweet potato. they are two different plants.

I don't like yam because it's bit bland but i love sweet potato🥰but its first time seeing purple ones

Even in the Philippines you can’t be sure if you’re buying Ube products. I recently went to Baguio and bought ‘ube chips’ but they’re actually just purple kamote so not the real deal. We do need to have some sort of Authenticity seal for Ube and Ube extract products I think especially since it’s also getting mainstream in the International food scene

@@kuyaleinad4195 diba 😭 i think its because real ube is a lot harder to cultivate compared to other root crops, but theyre much more marketable compared to say kamote etc....its such a shame!

The Philippines has a lot more to focus on than protecting a root vegetable's integrity

@@aleckcain4142 its true, but at the same time if we just wait for the big problems to get solved first then the little problems would never get attention 😔 It's like saying our ube farmers don't deserve attention and help because other farmers in the philippines dont even have proper land and farming equipment. We could always try to prioritize both

@@aleckcain4142 well, I guess you wouldn't mind other countries to start growing them to make a profit. Other Asians stamp their mark on their products but Pinoys fail in that field.

Not to be confused with "purple sweet potato" which also has purple flesh but a darker reddish brown skin vs. the lighter "Okinawa sweet potato" tan skin. **Both** of which are not to be confused with Ube, apparently. It's ... confusing. ;) Still haven't found anywhere that sells actual Ube, here locally. though I know of at least one place you can get both Okinawa & Purple sweet potatoes.

Okinawan sweet potato as a staple among Okinawans is thought to be a contributor to their longevity.

Philippines could be distant relatives with Indonesia and Malaysia. Some of our words are similar in meaning 😊

Fellow indonesian here. I thought ube was the same as ubi too! Now we know that ube is purple yam and ubi is sweet potato in any color including purple. But that got me thinking.......... so what do we call yams in Bahasa Indonesia?

@@MelodyAlfyam= keladi/ talas

You’re right, for being wrong, lol ☺️.

sweet potatoes with different color including purple we called it "kamote"

Yeah, I’ve noticed this too, as a Nigerian google does this with fufu all the time. From my knowledge, my mom says the airport doesn’t allow us to bring real fufu into America for whatever reason, so no one I’m America most likely for legal reasons have ever really eaten fufu, unless they went to Nigeria to get the real deal. For some reason however, everyone on TikTok will post videos of poundo (or pounded yam) and whatever soup and call it fufu. I can confirm this bc I know the look, texture, and taste of fufu, fufu is like a yellow metallic color and it is smooth and tastes sour, but the people who’ve tried “fufu” all describe it to be fluffy, cloudy white like mashed potatoes, and tastes similar to potatoes, so they’re obviously been eating pounded yam. Also when I search on Google, it would show me a picture of pounded yam and call it fufu and I’m like “nooo that’s wrong”, my friend googled fufu and tried to tell me that I was wrong about what fufu was and I was like slow your role there bud, I’m a Nigerian through and through, born and raised, and google doesn’t know EVERYTHING about us, our languages, our culture, or really about any other culture that isn’t taught explicitly in the history books of the larger nations as intensely as they want you to think, also just bc something isn’t on the internet, or wasn’t recorded down in history, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist or never happened.

@@cyberglutzz.3450 you’re right, I had a friend tell me the same thing about fufu being banned here. That means it must be good for your body if they banned it. They banned marijuana & made you think it was bad for you but it’s the total opposite being the first ALL IN ONE antibiotic, pain reliever and happy pill made “BY NATURE”

Have you seen a ginger grows? It's like a deformed species. Ube grows like that but the size is big that can reach up to five kg. or more in just one dig. The skin's rough and thin. When you pinch it and wounded like blood but in deep purple colour. It's flaky and dry texture when it's cooked. In my place got white color inside but sweeter than purple ube. Some people call yam when it's purple in colour. Got another yam they call it but the leaf is big and look like ornament. Unlike sweet potato and ube, both grow same as like vines. For me it's totally different and once you see it.

But ube looks VERY different from a sweet potatoes. Ube like all yams have blob shaped tubers unlike sweet potatoes whose tubers are pointed at two ends. Yams and sweet potaties are different genus of plants. Even the vines look very different.

I thought this too until rn

Literally thought that until she brought it up. “This isn’t a yam, it’s a purple sweet potato” Ma’am…… you just said “it’s not that because it is”

Yam is just another term for sweet potatoes. You are correct there is literally no difference. Kind of like how turnips are also called rutabaga.

The funniest thing to me is that everyone in North America calls them "sweet potato fries" except when I was working in a kitchen, because "yam fries" is a much easier order to shout during a rush hahaha

​@@awsomnessnoveiws you're not correct on either of those. Genetically and culturally there are differences between yams and sweets, AND between turnips and swedes. What a strange thing to choose another incorrect example to try and prove your point.

i love that video! actually cited a lot of it for my term paper i just did for my botany elective.

@@kaitlinsaide6897 you cited a RU-vid video as reference?

​@@gordonchristophertubo3164 you could actually do that. I also cited one for mine. Just make sure that your video is credible.

@@ansellouie9100 i mean, i could technically eat raw pork but i wouldn't do it though 😂

@@gordonchristophertubo3164 ? Makes no sense

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Wow your so knowledgeable🤯🤓🧐

I was thinking the same, Yam is Sweet potatoes right?

Oh I always thought yams were just those little red things lol

Wow I need this for the next party I’m at when I’m feeling socially anxious

​@@luvya143ful Similar, yet not the same. Ñame (Ube, purple yam) has a rough outside like cassava. I do get why it's said that it is the same but it is a bit different, there's a lot of different vegetable roots

Excuse my ignorance but Yukka??? You can eat Yukka..like the tree I have in my garden??? 😳🤔🤔😲🇬🇧☮️

@@katstephenson8493 No worries, actually it's the Yucca Root. "Yucca" is what we call it in Spanish but actually it's a type of Cassava Root (from the Cassava Plant or manioc)!

But that is "Okinawan" sweet potato' not yams. Yams like ube are a different genus altogether. The roots of yams are big and shaped like blobs. Their leaves are pointier than sweet potatoes and are not edible unlike sweet potato leaves since they have more cyanide in them. Yams are also aerial vines that cling to trees. Sweet potatoes stay on the ground like true potatoes. Why america calls sweet potatoes "yams" is very weird. It's like calling an apple "orange".

​@@user-dg2jz1gi5sHonestly I think its just a lack of knowledge. I'm American and I do hear people use them interchangeably. I have no clue why people do this other than they just don't know there's a difference between the two.

I make biscuits with them, so good 🤤

How do you prepare it, that sounds amazing?

You ought to use it to make sweet potato casserole. I think it will work. We use orange sweet potato 🍠. Boil or bake till fork tender. You just put butter and I think a little condensed milk could def go in . Mash mash mash. Then put in deepish baking dish Top with pecan brown sugar crumble. ( Butter brown sugar, pecans), nice and thick! Make sure pecans are pieces. Not whole. Bake 350 for 30-45 mins covered with foil, uncover for last 7-10 mins. Thanksgiving 🦃🍽️ is served. Sorta😂

Kūmara in New Zealand Māori 😊 Just a little random fact for you, Kūmara or sweet potato are originally from South America, it puzzles scientists who can see through our Polynesian genetics that we are descended from South East Asian, hence why our languages share similar traits to Tagalog and especially Malay. I have my own theory that our ancestors were searching for new lands and happened upon some South Americans who they traded with. This would've been during the peak of the Polynesian Maritime era, before Māori in New Zealand blocked ourselves off. (I suppose without the ability to go back in time, we'll probably never know how the Kūmara got to Polynesia) I don't know if other Polynesian people cultivated the Kūmara to the extent that Māori did. It was a staple food for the Māori while other pacific nations cultivated the taro as a staple. While the taro grew albeit a heck of a lot more slowly in our cold climate and was primarily reserved for Ariki or chiefs. Coconuts, Pineapple, Breadfruit and Maika were also unable to be cultivated due to the frosts of Winter and Spring cold. Cultivation techniques were developed to help preserve food over the cold winters we get here. They were stored in pits that were hollowed out in the shape of a hockey stick which would keep them aerated and dry throughout our wet winters. Some tribes were called Kaikiore or Rat eaters which was perfectly safe because the Polynesian rat (As well as the Polynesian dog) both had vegetarian diets. Did Hawaiians eat Kiore and Dog as well? I know Tongans and Cook Islanders did but I've always found it hard to find Hawaiian history in ebook form, do you know of any good books I could read? Preferably written by Kanaka Maoli but it's okay it's been written by Pākehā/Haole. Sometimes they were better equipped to record history, though I far prefer reading the works of Native writers, especially where Genealogy is concerned. Shit so sorry for going off on a tangent 😂 I've got a strong desire to preserve our culture and encourage all Polynesian people to participate in the preservation of our languages and the oral histories told by our old people who were in turn told by their old people and so on and so forth going all the way back to when those events transpired 😊 ❤

​@@CallemJay_McNeill wait, new Zealand have winters? I thought it's tropical in there, due to them being always pictured as sunny

@@patrickbueno3279 Yup it doesn't snow in the North Island unless you live right up by the mountains (Which sadly I do 😂) but if you live in the southern part of the South Island there's usually always some snow in July/August and sometimes even as late as October. When I was living in Auckland, the winters were very mild while the summertime heat could become a little overwhelming. Despite how small our country is, there's about three different climates. The far north is semi sub tropical. Then you have the alpine climate in mountainous areas and the mild oceanic climate in the majority of other places

No ones putting scientific names on packages. I think you just wanted a chance to mention you’re a plant biologist. 😂😂

well I hope they simplify scientific names. Scientific names are hard to pronouce, hard to memorize, hard to spell.

it identifies as ube though. ube is a spectrum

I'm a farmer and I share your pain. I grow ube for the local market in the Philippines and actually the one who constantly comments on RU-vid videos that what they're eating is not ube but purple sweet potatoes instead.

@@theuniverseisme432 They do actually put Scientific names on things if you know where to look. A lot of herbalists and seed sellers use them. herbal teas also commonly include scientific names. I'll grant you that doing this for all products would be difficult and overkill. my point was more I hate getting the wrong thing because of common names overlapping which has happened to me a bunch of times (For instance there are two main types of Chamomile used for tea: Roman and German and they are not only different species but different genera.)

Whats the difference

​@@BakedBuddy She literally says it in the video

@@raerohan4241 you right

​@@raerohan4241 Ube taste ALOT better

​@@BakedBuddy Ube has a darker shade on the outside that it should looked like a lighter shade of the soil ;)

ube root is also 100x bigger than all sweet potato varieties. Not hard to differentiate at all

I have been lied too all these years ate what I thought my asian grandmother called purple "sweet potato" but it was actually ube all this time lol

​@@Deathdealer141 sweet potatos are yams this lady is just dense

@@DJbassrevolution definitely not - YOU the one sounding dense family ::: potatoes (all kinds) have usually lighter but always smoother skin and yams (all kinds) have usually darker but always rough like tree bark skin .. It Is That Simple

​@@DJbassrevolution the irony in your statement... Holy shit ..

Correction, all yams are sweet potatoes

Yes, yes they are, but at the same they’re not. All yams are sweet potatoes, but all yams aren’t sweet potatoes

​@@crachhit6Yes, but not all Sweet Potatoes are Yams

@@thesharinganknight9859all yams are sweet potatoes but all sweet potatoes aren’t yams?

same with taro

It's the same thing in Ube in the Philippines

Agreed. How the hell is Ube the same as the average sweet potato. Ube also have a different texture. I like Ube more than sweet potatoes so I know how strikingly different it is.

they aren't even closely related, ube and yams in general are more closely related to a grass than a freaking sweet potato 😂

@@ragiingtomato14 i had to search for different kind of yams because i didn't know they exist, I only know purple yam which is also called ube lol

Most people working in the produce department of the store, and especially the people who pick the orders for pickup, have no clue the difference between a plantain and a banana or a yam and a sweet potato. If it's labeled as a plantain, that's what you're getting. It's more a problem of suppliers mislabelling products which I tend to believe often happens because a product is in demand and they don't have it, so they send some purple sweet potatoes labeled as ube knowing nobody will know the difference.

There are more important things today that need more attention than a root crop.

@@yelanchiba8818 that root crop has been part of our culture for hundreds of years. Just because it's not important to you, it's not important for anyone else. The Aitas deserves recognition for the hardwork they put into these crops.

@@yelanchiba8818 this is such an unhelpful thing to add to a conversation. I could name any problem and you’d say “oh but there’s a bigger problem” So what???

Hello i'm from Indonesia idk where these tubers originality comes from but in Indonesia we have it too, for the first one with black skin in my Region it's called Hui pronounce (Hooe) and the second one is called Ubi or in the Philippines Ube, I'm from Sundanese one of the ethnic group in indonesia the word Hui is from Sundanese while in Indonesian we call it Ubi Ungu (Purple Ubi) while Ubi in Sundanese we call it Mantang we have so much Varieties of ubi theres yellow, white, and orange atleast that's what i know maybe much more. the difference is that Hui bear fruit on trees that vines above the trees while Ubi are underground and yeah in my Sundanese Region we have one popular Ubi "Ubi Cilembu" or they usually call it Honey Ubi it's ordinary Ubi with orange flesh like honey they bake it in the oven it's so sweet with the chewy texture Sorry for grammatical error English is not my first language my mother tongue is Sundanese

@@namjoonsshysmile5777 oooOh it's interesting there are other Ube in different colors as well ^°^ I know they're in other countries, I did said they're from other countries like Southeast Asia, we don't want credit for the tuber itself but the "flavor" of Ube. The Ube that was mostly familiar with ( either by desserts like ice cream, cake, cookies, bread etc. ) the taste, it's richness and ingredients came from the Ube Halaya jam.

lmaoooooooooo

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What about the taste? Are they the same?

Ube is way tastier than ANY sweet potato variety. It's very nutty and sweet in flavor and becomes chewy like sticky rice when ground up and cooked. And the aroma is very delicious smelling. Sweet potatoes are bland and tends to be grainy and dry when cooked. There's a reason ube is expensive in the Philippines and sweet potatoes are mostly fed to pigs as fodder. Everyone in the Philippines see sweet potatoes as the stereotype for cheapness or bad quality and Also prejorative terms "kamote" "kinamote" or "nakamote" And before you say that certain sweet potatoes are superior like the Japanese yellow or purple varieties, then you would be laughed at here in the Philippines since those varieties are also widely cultivated here. Those are not even the tastiest varieties since the Philippine orange sweet potatoes are sweeter. Those have the white skin and orange meat and they are sweet, but Never as sweet or aromatic as ube.

No, you just happen to be across the planet from Asia

@@asmrwithtinyhands That makes so much sense 💀

Hello fellow Virginian!

Sweet potato has at least 3 colors. White, yellow and purple

Just the fact of the way you worded this, saying I'm sitting here on my butt, made me laugh. That sounds so much like something I would say, here in Jersey, and I would be proud to call you friend....🤣🤣🤣 you are awesome and it sounds like you grew up around here!😊 keep being you!

It’s probably not them not knowing what it is but trying to bank on the popularity of ube when fresh ube is banned in the mainland United States due to it being crazy invasive

That's why I don't do pickup. I don't want the produce someone else picks. I want to pick it out myself. Amongst other issues I have with it lol 😊

tbf she says it was raining and she was too lazy to go herself. Idk why people criticize when someone decides to pay for a service and gets screwed.

That wasn't gabi though, it was kamote, right, gabi or taro aren't that big.

hell nah it doesn't taste the same.

taro ay gabi, iba pa ang purple na kamote which this vid talking about sweet potatoes at ang ube ay ube they calling yam

AKA, "Okinawa Sweet Potatoes." Which are themselves different from "Purple Sweet Potatoes" which have a darker skin than "Okinawa Sweet Potatoes" but basically the same deep purple flesh when cooked. And both of which are different from Ube, apparently.

In America yams are not very sweet. Sweet potatoes are very sweet. Yams are another thing entirely.

Same in Canada. One vlogger I watched before said they call Sweet Potatoes as Yams. :) he defended himself after the Filipinos went after him for claiming he has easy access to ube... Then shows off his canned yams! LOL!

It's crazy to me how often this gets messed up. I work at a grocery store in the front end department but I've worked produce before so I always notice when they mix yams and sweet potatoes. At one point someone thought Serranos were Jalapeños, that was pushing it lol

​@@LacyLynLabret that's because most grocery stores don't carry both ya dingbats lmao

Also because they don't grow it. They order it from Farmers or suppliers who say this is UBE sell it as such and so they do.

No. I live in the Phil and we never call ube as kamote. Ube is ube. We may have purple kamotes but never called ube as kamote.

Who calls kamote, 'ube yam'? 😂

​@@ragingtomato04Yeah right😅, I think the right English term for Kamote is Sweet Potato.

That's a 100% false statement. 😂😂😂

@@mrmacho41speak for yourself

I literally watched it fifty times just to hear it again 😆

I wanna try that ice cream!

Try Ube cake too. It's the best. I didn't use icing on the cake. I used Ube jam. 😋

They’re so delicious! They taste buttery and sweet, almost like a pastry (imo). They stopped stocking them after March2020 😔 I miss them.

Literally purple sweet potato is better than any other root vegetables fk the ube sht

Although kachil is also a purple yam in India, it is still different from Philippines' ube purple yam. There are distinctions actually, from taste, color, texture, and size and shape of the yam itself. For one, kachil are rounder than ube, and are frequently in white to purple color. While authentic ube are more cylindrical and are in pale purple to deep purple.

Purple yam (ube) are commonly seen and can be purchase in local market which freshly coming direct from the grower in the phillipines.

I beg to disagree, maybe if it's out of season, of course you can't see it, unless it's not really produced in your localities or not usually consumed by folks in that certain marketplace, which is common in Cities and urban areas far from it's source farms, like Metro Manila Cities whose usually consumed Ube Products that's already processed into powder, liquid extract or jam.

^-^ I work in a grocery store. The whole food distributor we work with actually lists it as Okinawan Purple Yam so that has always been what we listed it as. We have never referred to it as Ube and don't advertise it as Ube. When a customer comes and asks for Ube we will tell them we don't sell Ube.

@@troll1321 technically those are ube.

@Spellcaster I don't even know anymore to be honest. Different suppliers list it as different things. Google is helpful sometimes but not always.

They are honestly so pretty fresh. Careful not to get stained though! 😄

>ube us bland >purple sweet potatoes are sweet You have NEVER eaten real ube or even know sweet potatoes. The sweet variety of sweet potatoes are from the Philippines, they have white skin and orange meats. But even then, sweet potatoes are considered low quality and a stereotype for cheapness and often fed to pigs as fodder in the Philippines. And before you say that I don't know what I'm talking about, know that those "Okinawan" sweet potatoes came from the Philippines brought by ilocano and kapampangan immigrants to Hawaii along with Gabi(taro) and pineapples and almost all of the stereotyped Hawaiian farm plants you know today. Those Filipinos are the bulk of the immigrants who farmed there after all. There's a reason ube is so expensive compared to the more than 30 varieties of indeginous Sweet potato varieties here in the Philippines.

Maybe those are other types of yams, but ube only ranges from dark to light purple, and taste different/unique from other yams.

And fact is ube is only found in the philippines

that's not Ube.. we called it "Kamote" with different color here in the PH.

​@@ColoniaMurder20oo kamote yung ibat ibang colors sweet potatoes in english. Ang ube ay ube lang

No, hun. Yams are more odd-shaped and bulbous in appearance, and can get freakishly huge. Their flesh is way easier to cut with a knife than a sweet potato, it's marbling is kinda like meat (even when it's white) and the texture is kinda slimy when raw and really light and fluffy when cooked. When digging them out you have to be careful and if you ever planted one of the damn things you'll constantly find random vines springing up in odd places.

like i’m all for the facts but i’d just sit there going “sweet potato sweet potato” 😭. like come on y’all clearly did research for tidbits you couldn’t search what they looked like?