YAMS OR SWEET POTATOES | What's the difference?

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[ObscenelyMarvelous]

I like this educational style of video that shows the different varieties in detail. If you have an interest in filming more like this, winter squash varieties could be a good topic. I haven't had the opportunity to try yams, but I get 4 or 5 varieties of sweet potatoes from my favorite farmers market.

[gretchennesmith]

iI have been trying to tell people for years that sweet potatoes and yams aren't the same. Thank you for educating the people.

[chichienu]

Thank you SO much for clarifying this. I am Nigerian and grew up eating yams, I loved fried yams with fried plantains topped with fried egg and tomato stew (Americans would call it sauce). I also liked yam porridge. And one of my favorite memories was when my grandmother visited and would only pound yam for me and her, while everyone just ate regular garri (fried and dried cassava made into a paste) with the soup. I didn’t like Egusi soup though, I liked okro soup, orah soup and vegetable soup. We also ate sweet potato, which we called sweet potato. When I moved here and saw yams that looked like sweet potatoes, I thought there was a whole nother tuber in the US called yams. So in my mind there were American “yams, ” Nigerian yams and also sweet potato. 😅 I was today years old when I learned from your video that American “yams” are just sweet potatoes! 😅😂

[chichio]

As a Nigerian, lemme say, in this part of the world, that mistake (potatoes misnamed as yams) doesn't happen.I'm stoked that you've tried and like egusi(and pronounce the word properly too😊).Foofoo does not refer to pounded yam only, in fact, we generally refer to it as that:pounded yam.We call cooked pounded cassava foofoo, along with other cooked pounded starchy foods, (though these days, people have annoyingly and incorrectly started calling them "swallows", a translation of the various local expressions for them)and eat them with what we call soups--egusi is one of them--which are NOTHING like what the western world calls soup of course.Plus, we don't salt yam after it's cooked and don't eat it by itself, that's kinda bland:there would be a (usually herby and spicy)sauce to go with it separately(sort of like a dip) or which it'd be cooked in(yam porridge).Your li'l girl was right to refuse it as is 😅.

[MollyCutie]

That was a very interesting history lesson

[deliahiggs]

In the islands we eat lots of yams. We have them soups and stews. We also cook it by itself and eat with any meat or fish that has lots gravy, it’s a filling meal

[lindsaytoussaint]

As a Haitian American who grew up with both (and they all have different creole names) growing up it was so confusing because most other Americans didn’t know what to call them and I didn’t know what to call real yams in English without having someone think I was talking about sweet potatoes 😂 On top of that we’d often shop in Spanish-speaking grocery stores which had other names which varied depending on which Caribbean country the shore was catering to 😂😂😂 what a nomenclative disaster! LOL

Now we need a video on yucca and cassava!😂

[MegaGoddessofLove]

Wow, thanks for clearing that up. That was so informative. I've been so confused about this for years.😅

[bluetinsel]

The morning glory family is from the convolvulus species which is under the order of solanales which are from the Americas.

[wwnnn]

I’m from SoCal, (I know you were here for a while) and sweet potatoes are called sweet potatoes. Certain stores will label them sweet potatoes/yams. But for the most part we call em sweet potatoes. And some folks call em candied yams after they’ve cooked the sweet potatoes😁 But thanks for this great informative video🤗

[MsBNYC]

I put my Yams in the oven and let it cook. My favorite way of eating them is by cutting them into fries form and eat it with vegan eggs for breakfast and it's soooo good. I also paired them with a good burger or chicken.

[lisatowan]

Thanks for the informative video. Baby J has gotten so big. Where did the time go? She's such a little lady now.

[TheMCvamp]

Grew up eating okinawan sweet potato’s and they will always be my number 1. Nothing better to me. Love that you talk about them here! I can’t wait to watch more of your content.

[dcmuler]

In Suriname yams are called napi. We have the white and the purple one. Great in soup and a good substitutie for rice

[animalsarebeautifulpeople]

I realize I've never had yams! Would love to try them ! I LOVE Korean sweet potatoes 💚💙💚💙💛🧡💯🥰😍

[Amelia-qmbk]

In the UK, we only mainly have the orange sweet potatoes. Some asian stores have the white ones. I have seen yams too actually, but did not know they are until now. I will e purchasing them to try. Thanks.

[kupotenshi]

I didn't know there were so many varieties of sweet potato! I want to try the purple ones.

[brwnsgr]

Thanks for clearing that up. I’ve always called sweet potatoes yams.😊

[VanDeSese]

Thanks a lot! I really need to check if we in Germany have yams. Never heard of it before. Thank you. Lovely greetings from Germany 🥰🥰🇩🇪

[Lee-pmex]

Great 🙄😳 I just unlearned, delearned and re-learn much about yams and sweet potatoes 🥔 🥔 😊 .. awesome video pretty lady!!!👏👏👏 smart kid too! ( subbed)