Yams vs Sweet Potatoes: What's the Difference? 

Ha! Good timing! Thanks for watching.

that's cool i never knew what a real yam is. now i want to try it!

Pound the yam this time

Would love to know the difference in the taste.. I'm not a huge fan of the sweet potato.. Never had a yam but love Yuka.. Yams look more like Yuka inside..

Swnsasy _ yam is yucca

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Oooooh, yeah. Stay tuned!

Ajani, you're the sweetest!! Thank you so much! So happy to have you watching.

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Thank you! Please never stop watching. ;)

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Wow, so interesting!

Yeah... I see batatas as the equivalent of sweet potatoes. The color is different but they are both sweet.

A estos, ustedes les llaman "viveres"? estoy buscando cual es nombre del genero (?) en ingles. Por ejemplo, tomates, pepinos y esos, son vegetales. Entonces a llamamos vivieres a esos como la yuca, platanos, papas, etc.

@@yasminsanchez8752 we got two batatas, white on the inside and orange on the inside (also called Camote in other parts of latinamerica)

@@yasminsanchez8752 Papa, yuca, ñame y batata son tuberculos. en inglés Tubers

@@luisbarvalopez muchisimas gracias! estoy escribiendo un papel para la universidad y no sabia como traducirlo. Can't trust google translate all the time, you know. :)

Thank you! Wow, I'd love to try all your different yams! Which is your favorite?

How Does it Grow? my favourite yams are negro/white yam and yellow yam. You should come to Jamaica one day and try them. We av multiple types of ground provisions here.

in the Philippines we have purple yam.

Yes we can buy them at Walmart's!

dont you mean Yamaica? hahhaha, ill how myself out... :S

So great to get this insight from Nigeria! Thanks for sharing!!

"inhame" isn't far off from yam -- that's so interesting! And yes, I agree, they taste SO different!

How Does it Grow? i realised i wrote yam wrong (yeam). haha. x) If you can, try to taste "mandioca" (or "aipim" like they say in other few areas of my country) don't know the english name but from what google says it's: "manioc" ?. It is the most different texture of root that i ever tried so far, in comparation to a potato for exemple, since this root don't disolve completly when cooked and you can actually find a few of the fibers of the root, like there was a string inside of it. And after cooked, some people like to fry it like french fries and it's soo good. x) A few tag names in case you wanna try to search it online: - Aipim frito (Fried aipim) - Mandioca frita (Fried manioc)

Thanks for the recommendation! Will seek it out!

Nycollas Thought Box its called cassava in english, and yuca in spanish

TheLyricalcelebratio Oh, thank you! 😄

Wow, thanks for sharing this info!

You are welcome! You have to do a video on the Ube also known as purple yam. So delicious and nutritious.. Not to be comfused with the purple sweet potato. My favourite of all yams.

So interesting! Thanks for sharing that

Thank you so much!

Thank you!

Thomas, it's exactly the same here. I will admit the one time I tried to cook a yam (rather than throw out the props!), I didn't do a very good job. I'll look up a recipe next time!

It is so common to buy it here, that before i read your comment i didn't even realised i was lucky for that. There is a guy who pass in front of my house in a car every week selling ground food, and sometimes he have some huge yams roots; he sells for Kg and it cost something around 5$BRL or 2$USD the Kilogram. I feel so spoiled right now for saying this; sorry. lol xD

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And they arent even that sweet

well sweet potatoes are not in the same family group as potatoes instead they have more incommon with was it nightshade or morningglory it grows like a vine

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I can't tell if there's sarcasm in your comment...

We maintain a strict independent editorial policy - we don't accept money from the farms we film. This means that for our main "How Does it Grow?" series we're able to tell the story we want to tell and the way we want to tell it.

Reno No no. Serious. I'm a commercial farmer. We produce 6million pounds of vegetable produce year round. You're videos are an excellent way of delightfully bridging the knowledge transfer void from farm to dinner plate. Your channel should be sponsored/financed by the various farmer organisations to objectify farms and crops and make it real. Most farming videos evoke sentimentalism, which is not good for the farming community actively producing food.

How Does it Grow? Sure. And that's my point. There's a hint of distrust in your comment, which is probably more widespread in the communities mind than farmers would like to admit. Your videos are good clean unadulterated information, and I think they should be supported by genuine farmers.

No, it's not distrust at all. We LOVE collaborating with the farmers we feature - we’ve cultivated some great relationships (no pun intended). And it's not a trust issue. It's that everyone, naturally, has a way they want to market themselves -- a story they want to tell. That's what we mean with maintaining our independence: we get to tell the stories we think our audience wants to hear. And since the farmers don't pay us, we're not beholden to change anything, etc. (This is a principle we practiced as independent journalists so that our route to telling the story is clean and unobstructed by any conflicts of interest.) That’s why we don’t seek money from the actual farms we cover. However we very much welcome funding conversations with farmer organizations who are happy to work with us in that way -- where we can maintain our editorial independence. As you say, we're not trying to be sentimental -- we're trying to bring agricultural literacy to a critical mass; to educate (and hopefully inspire) people about what it takes to get their food to the grocery store!

I love it! Gotta figure out a way to fly my crew to a place where they grow. ;)

Dragon fruits isnt really a dragon..

You're awesome for watching! :)

Aw, you're sweet! So glad you're enjoying the channel!

No, they are actually two very different plants. Certain people will refer to the taro as a yam depending on where they live or came from. But I have never seen or heard of ANYBODY from ANYWHERE referring to a yam as taro.

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Yes! That's why I made sure to mention it's a staple in the western diet.

That's our plan this year! :)

Nicole.

they are Yams

A compliment indeed - thanks! ;)

Love your videos BTW!

Thank you so much!!

I'd encourage you to watch more of our videos then.

GLENN BLANCO she is married?

mondos2001 - check that ring finger

That's what we call them here in the States. Most foods take on different names in different countries, based on the language (and often for marketing purposes).

That does not make it less bad. Can you make a video about lentils?

Kyrius Alarcón you are the typical crybaby with a chip on his shoulder. Do your own videos on poor minded cultures cuisine.