Produce Geek's Guide to Sweet Potatoes!

[@JohnBullard]

Sweet potatoes and pecans for breakfast every morning for two years, sometimes in the evening, too. Can't get enough.

[@wmluna381]

You must be a healthy individual. ☺

[@S.A.N.J.A.Y]

Timestamp for the Organoleptic taste test of diff. sweet potato's. 1:20 - covington sweet 2:09 - oriental sweet / Japanese sweet 3:07 - Garnett (the ticket) 4:02 - Hannah Sweet 4:50 - Jewels 5:23 - Stock's Purple Sweet Potato.

[@pattiepepper6217]

This was the BEST breakdown of Sweet Potatoes! Even better than some Top Professional Chefs!!! Thank you so much for your detail and dedication!!! Great video!

[@salviaprezzemolo2165]

I watched several videos to learn the difference between garnet, covington and jewel sweet potatoes. I learned exactly what I needed to know here in a single sentence at 3:50. Garnet holds its shape. Thank you!

[@ouicestmoietquoi]

You should steam cook the japanese sweet potatos and those purple ones for the cooking method. They cook up in around 20 mins and the steaming process causes the texture of the sweet potatos to be really moist and soft. Gets rid of the dryness.

[@trawrtster6097]

I like to bake them whole in a covered pan or wrapped in foil. Then cut into disks and pan fried in butter. Crispy buttery on the outside and sweet and jammy on the inside 😋

[@Imanne87]

The oriental sweet potato reminds me a lot of chestnuts. It’s my favourite, oven roasted and spread with some butter before eating

[@HummingbirdJa]

Sweet potatoes are definitely not Yams, and shouldn't be labeled as yams...It's ignorance that continues to mix up the two. I absolutely adore sweet potatoes.

[@studiosingyourstyle]

Finally someone who knows the difference. I just wasted the last 20min of my life listening to health nuts pretend to educate on sweet potatoes ... truth is they knew nothing!!!! Tip... cube small and try air frying! Delish

[@KahlevN]

My process for massively speeding up yam cooking is: .Wash, scrub with veg brush .Stab it with a knife several times all over and deep .Wrap in moist paper towel large then put on a plate .Microwave for 8minutes or so now med high .Stab to test, microwave more if center is still firm .Remove from towel .Pat dry .rub with oil of choice .season outside with salt .finish in oven/toaster oven for 10 min or so, rotating at least once. Serve. Cuts down the time by about 1/4 or so, and ends up with an almost identical end product as roasting the whole time, sometimes superior actually.

[@opidasdagoat]

that is how my mom does it!

[@wayfaringfarmer2724]

Microwaving removes all the nutrients from food and should be avoided

[@applebomb8924]

A purple sweet potato pie would change the game!! This was a very necessary video that I wish we'd watched a few weeks ago. My bf tried this potato lasagna recipe and the potatoes took forever to cook. Now realizing we chose the wrong ones!!

[@wmluna381]

Is there a specific website that you got that recipe from, AppleBomb? Also, did you guys give it another try?

[@bigneiltoo]

@@wmluna381 Just boil purple sweet potatoes (only takes about 6 minutes), lightly mash and add butter, olive oil, cinnamon, nutmeg and lemon juice. Top with lemon slices. We served it at Thanksgiving. Grow like wildfire in Florida.

[@wmluna381]

@@bigneiltoo Nice! Thank you for sharing how you prepare them.

[@atiqrahman7289]

6 varieties of sweet potatoes, so good looking, and good tasting. Excellent, delicious food.

[@angelinayeager6105]

Thank you for sharing this video. I learned something today! We love sweet potatoes

[@thehylander266]

The purple ones seem starchier and heavier or fuller, like a well baked homemade bread. I love them. So filling. They mix very well in Mexican type dishes or curry dishes, believe it or not. They mix in very well with spices.

[@biondatiziana]

Thanks for the very informative video. One suggestion: it would be great if you could put the variety name on the screen as you talk about it.

[@miss_gono]

Tried the purple one for the first time a few days ago and I must say it’s the best

[@DebiSunset]

For softer, moister purple stokes, put in pan with an inch or so of water when baking

[@wmluna381]

Good to know. Thanks!

[@willitine]

Great explanation and sample taste testing. Thanks for explaining the differences to clarify. Good to keep the names in mind to avoid confusion. 🥔

[@Clarkfamilyorchards]

Wow you know your stuff! I believe I've grown Covington, Beauregard, Japanese, and now Molokai (which I confused for Okinawan- actually a Hawaiian) here in Southwest Florida. Molokai is by far my favorite.

[@angelaspielbusch1237]

Love this very informative video! Truly appreciate you putting this out. I am a sweet potato lover and all varieties are delicious to me!!

[@kathy-ro6es]

Loved your comparisons. Georgia Jet is our family's favorite. We grow in it our garden.

[@greendesert69]

thanks, this is helpful. I bought some purple sweet potatoes at the oriental market and then rooted some slips and grew them all summer, they took over the garden and look beautiful. just dug up a few to see what they're like, I have no idea what variety they are, but they're very yummy. Not sure if it's stokes, or molokai. I have grown okinawan ones before as well. we love them in manapua (steamed buns). had them in Hawaii, and just absolutely love them.

[@pamelabratton2501]

You can cook the greens!

[@cassball7]

Great review! I’ve had all of those varieties and your review is spot on. The last few years I’ve made candied “yams”:with Garnett, Japanese, the white flesh one (I already forgot the name) and the purple flesh one. It comes out so pretty and of course delicious. Too bad you missed the Okinawa sweet potato; it’s very delicious as well.

[@tinykitchenbigflavor7142]

Oh yes the Okinawa sweet potatoes are the boom 💥, I love those! Where I come from we called the white flesh ones batata 🍠 and it’s by far my favorite of sweet potatoes. We make a coconut and batata dessert that’s to die for!

[@wmluna381]

@@tinykitchenbigflavor7142 The coconut / batata recipe is that from a specific (tropical) region?

[@opidasdagoat]

where can u find purple sweet potatoes from

[@cassball7]

@@opidasdagoat I get purple skinned and purple flesh sweet potatoes at Whole Foods or organic markets. I usually get the whitish/grayish skinned with purple flesh ones in Chinese markets. The later is naturally sweeter than the former. There is also a Filipino variety I think called Ube. You can probably find those at a Filipino or South Asian market.

[@opidasdagoat]

@@cassball7 thank you for replying. I will definitely be on the hunt for the purple sweet potatoes! i love white flesh sweet potatoes and orange flesh.

[@megantrautman8824]

If you get the all purple sweet potato, steam it in the steamer basket in the Instant Pot, it comes out AMAZING and definitely does not take 2 hours!! Highly recommend this method for all sweet potatoes, actually!

[@TheProduceGeek]

Cool!

[@lydiahubbell6278]

I did not like the stokes as much, but maybe I did not cook them long enough.

[@pamelamorris3148]

@@lydiahubbell6278 me either, they left waxy slime all over my teeth and the color took a tinge that was also left behind.

[@bigneiltoo]

I grate some into lard in cast iron, patted it down, browned both sides and served with salt and sour cream and it was incredible. If you boil them, save the water. It's inky dark purple.

[@MikesVideos2009]

Pressure cook for breakfast. Ten minutes at pressure. Serve with maple syrup. Yum. Organic Stokes are really good too.

[@jgenerao5563]

UBE/Purple Yam has been a staple in Asian (especially in Filipino) cuisine for centuries! So happy to see it make it to western cuisine! Enjoy! 😊

[@shayfeleez]

this is awesome! I can't eat many nightshades, so learning about all these varieties is great.

[@karotgold09]

Love it. Thank you for breaking this down for us

[@deecee1522]

Try sweet potato and black bean burritos. Healthy and delish.

[@pamelabratton2501]

This sounds tasty. Beans do love potato. A little cumin and curry....now I'm hungry!

[@hyalos6894]

I do sweet potato quinoa!!

[@kevenquinlan]

Jackson's page on the internet is also a great source of information- and there are a lot more listed, though it's unlikely you will ever find more then a few pretty much anywhere. This is a great video- thanks. You should also do a video preparing like the 5 most popular and see how they fair boiling vs baking vs frying, etc... Anywho, thanks dude.

[@user-up4vd5ov8x]

Where was this when I was in Whole Foods confused lol. I bought 4 different sweet potatoes.

[@Jupe367]

Stokes is so good. My favorite.

[@wmluna381]

I bought 4 purple Stokes from Kroger in April and thought I'd try my hand at growing SWPOs, regular potatoes, garlic, and different types of onions in 2022 survival garden form. I didn't even consider that the leaves are edible. And in worst case scenarios, they provide people and can be a component of pet food (dogs). It took longer than anticipated to get the Stokes to sprout out and produce slips. I put 3 in moist sandy dirt (laid horizontally on their sides &, barely covered). One was stuck in water with the toothpicks (mind the end positioning, the part that was attached to the plant should be the end sticking out of the water). 2 of the dirt ones rotted on a spot check. The stokes in water sprouted 1st. It seems that there's a lot of back and forth on whether soil or water slip propagation is better. Based on what I've experienced, it's likely the exposure to warmth that is the ticket. The Stokes in water was on a Southeast facing high window sill in an unheated room in April in Southeast MI. The cup it was in was also clear. The dirt Stokes was in the same room, but on a table 2 feet lower. It's more of a storage / grow room where I have a mini greenhouse with grow lights. However, the dirt Stokes wasn't specifically under any lights. It wasn't until I decided to prop / hover the dirt Stokes container over a small back heating pad that it finally did sprout some slips. It wasn't directly laying on the pad so I tried being half safe about it. I would still say give yourself about 30 days lead time to at least get slips sprouting if you have the Stokes. The one in water took about 3 weeks, give or take. After you clip off a slip (I wait until they are at least 6" long), you still have to root them out (get the roots growing out, that is) in water, so that will add extra time. They shouldn't be planted outside until the overnight temps are warm. Say, at least ~50 degrees to ensure the soil temps won't screw things up. So far here in late May, I have harvested about 17 slips. Most I am rooting out in water. I am trying a few others in dirt. Each Stokes provided 2 slip harvests and they are still at it. There should be a round 3 next week. I read where a lady said one SWPO she had going produced slips for *1 year* which I thought was wild. I look forward to seeing what kind of crop I will produce in a bag and guerrilla planting. I need to find out if Stokes are bush-type / determinate or indeterminate. The coming ones might be a problem out in the wild though. Regular potatoes are SO EASY to get going in bags. Wish I would have known that YEARS ago. I use regular grow bags and repurposed 20-40 lb. bird seed and cat food bags with the tops rolled down to btw 14-16". The tarp-like ones. I wouldn't use an actual tarp, there's a chemical leeching factor with those.

[@CharGC123]

When the Okinawan diet consisted of up to 80% purple sweet potatoes, they were one of the longest lived people on earth!

[@barbaralong8665]

I growing an Okinawa sweet potato. It was hard to find.

[@pavelchetirbok6126]

Hard to find and expensive.

[@CharGC123]

@@pavelchetirbok6126 I found some in an Asian market and wanted to grow them, but I think they were irradiated because they would never sprout like regular ones, just shriveled up. Really ticked me off after spending a small fortune and didn't even get to taste them!

[@4evaavfc]

What you call an oriental sweet, we call kumara. It was brought to NZ by ancient Polynesians. It's the same kumara common in Korea. You are right about it having a drier flesh than the orange sweet potato. I like mixing them and mashing with butter.

[@support_theory8754]

In California, I've seen it called Japanese or Oriental sweet potato at Ralph's/Kroger. They're good! I have one baking in the oven now. :0

[@davi3070]

Sweet Potato Pie was my favorite dessert as a kid, probably because my Grandmother won a Blue Ribbon for hers at the Mississippi State Fair! As an adult I am less fond of the intense sweetness, so sadly, Pumpkin Pie has taken Sweet Potato's place in my heart. I recently stumbled upon the White Sweet Potato by accident and boy was I happy I did. Watch out Pumpkin, Sweet Potato is coming back!!!!

[@dlou3264]

This was SO well done! Just the information I was looking for! Thanks!

[@roxie6519]

Those purple ones are the best! I found them at a korean grocery store years ago and bought them on a whim. They taste nothing like other sweet potatoes! And, interestingly enough, it's flavor I'll sometimes just start randomly craving and odd times. Other sweet potatoes just taste bland to me since I've had those dark purple ones.

[@rainabosworthf393]

My dog loves them makes her hair a beautiful Auburn

[@evanpschneider]

Great video and very informative. Thank you!

[@Unwhit]

Does anyone know where to Hannah sweet potato seeds from?

[@cbalducc]

Would the California-grown varieties not grow in the Southeast?

[@natureboy6410]

Which variety of sweet potato or yam would you say has the shortest to harvest growth and the most prolific?

[@bettymackey379]

Thank you! Needed this clarification!

[@sitandchill2897]

Isn't the purple sweet potato what we call "ube"? It's the hallmark of Filipino desserts. We make ube pie, ube ice cream, ube jam (ube halaya), ube cupcakes, ube sponge cakes, ube chiffon cakes, ube muffins 😂

[@angeliecherry8976]

Right! I was like “fairly new on the market??!!” 🤣

[@dreamcore]

Nah, ube is a yam.

[@sitandchill2897]

@@dreamcore same thing. Sweet potato isn't a potato, it's a type of yam/tuber.

[@anti.bctards7376]

@@sitandchill2897 Are yams morninglories, no. Sweet potatoes are part of the morninglory family

[@autsept7116]

Sp excited to experiment with!

[@tradergirl7067]

great video m I was so hoping you has a okanawan hawaiian purple in that mix. they are supposed to be superior to all the others.

[@natek3954]

Wow! Thanks for the very informative video. I just learned from a health food store employee that there’s over 15 different types of sweet potatoes

[@Reallythiscat]

You should try okinawa purple sweet potatoe. It turns black when boiled

[@myragroenewegen5426]

Let's talk more about why certain potatoes are good or less good for certain things. Being softest and sweetest, the Covington (spelling?) sounds like the best for sweet sweet-potato dishes and most of the orange sweet potatoes sound good for general use. Again, though, what are the kind of things where aspects of any one of these are clearly preferable? All the potatoes here could be used to make fries, but would one be able to fry them together, or are their fry times too different? When it comes to the less familiar non-orange sweet potatoes what are the kind of recipes where one would seek one of these out specifically and NOT the others? I love how many of the potatoes are covered here. Let's get deeper and make ourselve potato experts!

[@KeikoBushnell]

Sometimes I slice them and eat them raw! They are like a carrot but better! I think carrots and not that tasty... and too hard. No one else I know does this.... but I love raw corn on the cob too! It’s so much juicier and sweeter and people look at me like I’m nuts🙎🏼‍♀️

[@phyrewillow6463]

Me too! And sweet corn straight from the garden is delicious in the milk stage! 😋

[@wmluna381]

Well then, this I have to try. Do you grow your own, Keiko?

[@phoebechong8799]

Wow... seriously??

[@phoebechong8799]

I don't know we can eat them raw 😆 ya maybe in the old times, people just dig them out from the soil and eat them.

[@natureboy6410]

Used to eat regular potatoes like an apple when I was a little boy. We used to call them ground apples LOL. They have a real earthy flavor raw.

[@UnaLocaUnica]

Which one was the sweetest? Covington sweet, garnet or jewel. I'm trying to recreate sweet potato chips and found the best video to get them crunchy but the sweetness was not there. If anyone knows which is the orange sweet potato that is used for chips please let me know.

[@Crimsonnaire]

Hi. The sweet potatoes I buy from my local Walmart appear to be the Covington variety whereas the ones from my local farmer's market are generally smaller and have a reddish skin, though they taste almost the same. Can the Covington variety generally be stated to grow larger than the Garnet variety? Thanks.

[@badendhappy2903]

purple ones are the best! :D

[@Inspiredbygrowth]

Love to make purple sweet potato pie! 🥧

[@fidelkva4810]

I love the small, purple ones. Mild taste. Better than the orange sweet potatoes, in my opinion.

[@naufalabdulcader6205]

How can find the sweet potato which I liked based on the leave design?

[@wmluna381]

Google Lens the image. I get about a 70% success rate off photos I take when I'm out hiking, etc.

[@LowScoville]

Search up Vietnamese purple yam soup, it's a creamy rice porridge that is really pretty, and comforting.

[@TheFrancescoPD]

please.. could you tell me the variety of the one with white skin and with pulp ...? tks you very much

[@TheProduceGeek]

White/tan skin with White/tan flesh sweet potatoes are usually sold as Hannah Sweet or O’Henry or DS White or Bonita

[@ShannettaSmith]

I recently bought a Natural Gold sweet potato 🥔??? Organic it says ... haven't tried it

[@CarlzJafran]

Nice video and very informative about the taste of sweet potatoes. I am a lover of sweet potatoes too.

[@Dee-rg9yb]

Thanks for doing this!

[@lovelylife56]

Can you eat all sweet potato leaves?

[@josedanielherrera7115]

Try them with Harissa paste instead of taco seasoning.

[@sidehustletoceo]

Thank you for sharing. I just subscribed.

[@miriamvlachoulis6875]

Writing a market scene for a D&D homwbrew I want to run and this is perfect

[@rosalindamartin7079]

great... i still want to know the microwaveability.

[@davidlawspoonful]

Awesome! Thank you very much for the info

[@eddiemendez796]

I keep accidentally buying yellow sweet potato's 😪 so I'm here to educate myself

[@peacewillow]

fascinating!! 🥔 thank you! 💕

[@isabelladavis1363]

Thanks for sharing

[@pattiepepper6217]

Just had the Japanese Sweet Potato. Definitely on the much drier/dense side. Even when I steam them in coins, they are extremely dry. Still delicious but not as creamy as the Jewel or Covington. The Stokes I eat strictly for the antioxidants, but that one is also a very dense, hard, and dry sweet potato. Not as dry as the Japanese Oriental, but still very hard. I need to cut very thin coins in order to achieve a softness. Thank you again for this AMAZING video!!! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@JAKESEOUL31tv]

Do they have the same benefits or do the change by kind ?

[@greendesert69]

the purple ones are much higher in antioxidants

[@foggypatchfarm6048]

Great informative vid! When I bought the purple ones a few years ago, I'm pretty sure they were marketed as a Japanese Purple sweet potato. As for cooking, I boil mines. About 18 mins is usually all that is required.

[@yeastori]

Microwaving the purple ones in a microwavable bowl for 7 mins with a teaspoon of water while covered tends to do the trick

[@drvNYK]

In india we have one with bright white color inside.

[@donnayoung5942]

Very informative video!

[@fosterhart2013]

As I work in produce business I am going to check the warehouse . There is an oriental and Japanese variety ! Going to check difference . What is pecu!jar is that they all originated from the Americas or did they ? Really divergent research results !

[@HadassahIsraelTv]

Damn which one to taste closer to an actual regular potato that’s why I was here thought you were going to mention it

[@hyalos6894]

I bought a purple sweet potato but when I cut it I found out it was white and I was so perplexed Thank you for this video haha it's funny cuz I had to Google it

[@payotimeRamsYT]

Thanks for a great video! You have a new sub!

[@derekdean7580]

Mmmm.... Sweet potato pie......

[@TheProduceIndustryShow]

Very cool!!!

[@yaquerauls3514]

great video

[@maatsatya]

The Japanese sweet potatos seems to be better for fries than the orange variety.

[@kevinwilson3337]

Agreed and they are sweeter

[@nubuckmicrohomestead]

The second one should be roasted much longer because the insides show light or white spots. It should look more like the emoji🍠The Korean Yam (when it comes to the Asian sweets I've heard people call every single variety "Japanese" but I have been yelled at by my local produce vendor :) ) turns a caramelized yellow and gets sweeter as it's roasted -to the point you would think a normal sweet potato is overdone. They are great for breakfast as a meal. Just a roasted Korean Yam no butter, syrups or seasoning. THey make great pies as well. I will be posting a video soon on making sweet potato slips for all the varieties you have listed here.

[@diversitylove5460]

Hey. Are you going to eat all those? 😊

[@skincareaddicted]

Great video!

[@corazonmendoza79]

Thank you for sharing.im yoyr new subscriber.

[@lankaat]

Lovely presentation

[@jaym9846]

I like big buds.

[@godbless6939]

Which is less sweet

[@albertguthrie4096]

What's the yams? The yam is the power that be.

[@ananke2104]

Sweet potatoes as a dessert . . . . . . , maybe . . . . . .

[@rey-mirez1790]

Purple yam ( ube ) from phillipines where is it?? Now they claim purple yam is from their country.

[@Sapphireblue1844]

Japanese sweet is the best, yum roasted

[@mayenziwezwane796]

Lomjita udla bhatata 😕😕😲😮

[@sauravsuman2587]

I lived the showcase and tasting

[@somjitshartle9063]

Wrap it up with plastic , then in microwave oven for few minutes. Then time to eat 🤤 purple sweet potato!

[@wmluna381]

Yuk, I am not microwaving anything in or on plastic.

[@junjuncamacho8998]

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[@galhaliva7305]

אולי תמכור לי סל תפוחי אדמה לפסח אחד גדול מכל סוג...

[@FreeAmerican]

What we call sweet potatoes are not potatoes.