YAMS OR SWEET POTATOES | What's the difference?

[@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.

[@SweetPotatoSoul]

That's a great idea! I love squash, summer or winter varieties.

[@rrrevered]

@@SweetPotatoSoul Thank you so much for clarifying that "in the USA" both Yams and Sweet Potatos are actually Sweet Potatoes. This confirms my belief that the white looking ones on the inside are in fact Sweet Potatoes, and in all actuality, correcting me (thanks for the African Yam story), orange "Yams" are truly Sweet Potatoes. This answers CostCo calling the orange ones "Sweet Potatoes." I want to buy your book. I LOVE SWEET POTATOES and would Love to try a real Yam (unless your daughter is correct that they don't taste good LoL).

[@Genevon-ty6bq]

@@ObscenelyMarvelous I TOTALLY AGREE THIS VIDEO IS OUTSTANDING!! I THINK SHE SHOULD BE ON TELEVISION ON HER VERY OWN SHOW!! SHE IS SPECTACULAR!! 👏🏾🫶🏿👏🏾🥰👏🏾👍🏾👏🏾🫶🏿👏🏾

[@gretchennesmith9538]

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

[@SweetPotatoSoul]

Haha, some people really don’t want to hear it. Share this video 😉

[@deliahiggs1752]

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

[@SweetPotatoSoul]

Yum!! I bet it is nice and filling. I want to try some recipes

[@dcmuler]

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

[@DangerB0ne]

What a nice video. Very informative. Regarding sweet potatoes, my wife always makes candied sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving. That dish and sweet potato pie are essential for both Thanksgiving and Christmas. Also, the humble baked sweet potato helped me through college. All you need is foil, a toaster oven, and a sweet potato. A filling (if simple) meal for a buck fifty at most.

[@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! 😅😂

[@Amelia-qm6bk]

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.

[@MegaGoddessofLove]

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

[@SweetPotatoSoul]

Happy to help! Thanks for watching!!

[@wwnnn16]

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🤗

[@chichio9568]

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 😅.

[@SweetPotatoSoul]

Thank you so much for the additional info!! Haha yeah, I wouldn't eat it plain either. Just for the experiment!

[@richardharris2125]

@@SweetPotatoSoul Thanks for a great programme, @SweetPotatoSoul. It's great to have found it 👋.

[@lisatowan4536]

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

[@MollyCutie]

That was a very interesting history lesson

[@artwillvideos]

Check the frozen section of your market for ube. My local Asian market has blocks of frozen ube. I break it up and use it in smoothies with my berries!

[@bluetinsel7099]

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

[@deborahclayton3101]

Your explanation about the difference between yams and sweet potatoes is the best one I’ve heard. Thanks for making it clear.

[@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.

[@marcfredette7328]

The best explanation ever! Thank you!

[@icetea4me]

There's an island in Japan where purple sweet potatoes are a main staple of the diet. This island has one of the highest numbers of centenarians.

[@aquarian4reals]

Thank you for clarifying this!!!!!!!!

[@unitedspiritsvillage]

Thank you for this lovely presentation. Sweet potatoes are life 🍠

[@ChasMusic]

¡Thank you for clearing this up! I think I've only had the garnet and Japanese ones. I need to seek out those other kinds of yams, er, I mean sweet potatoes. Really clear explanations. Oh, and props to you for keeping your daughter's naysaying in the video.

[@lyrablack8621]

Love that she can be included while her privacy is still kept safe

[@SweetPotatoSoul]

Her voice deserves to be heard, too :) Plus, she's getting so big and has all her own opinions now!

[@shannonelliott9230]

I love your report! Really informative and also just fun and colorful, and if we were following along literally -- tasty!

[@kupotenshi]

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

[@atlsongbyrd6084]

🥰 Her little voice 💜

[@animalsarebeautifulpeople3094]

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

[@MsBNYC1986]

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.

[@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!😂

[@SweetPotatoSoul]

Haha, so confusing!!

[@chimezie7]

Nigerian here, I wasn’t aware that Haitians eat cassava too. How do you guys prepare it? I’m genuinely curious to see whether we make them in similar ways🤔

[@JosePerez-vz1qq]

Manioc 🇭🇹 Cassava 🇯🇲🇹🇹🇬🇾 Yuca 🇨🇺

[@cosmicwisdom999]

​@@chimezie7 In Jamaica we use Cassava to make what we called Bami which you can Google to see, then we fried and eat which fish mainly. We also make flour out of it

[@chimezie7]

@@cosmicwisdom999 in Nigeria we have a kind of food called Garri. Well in the states it’s still considered Fufu. But it’s made with a type of dried cassava flour. I will ask for Bambi next time I’m at a Jamaican restaurant bc I’m intrigued.

[@jessicaz.1901]

Great information, glad you are making videos again. Enjoy watching. 🍠

[@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 🥰🥰🇩🇪

[@shejustwantsout2694]

Janae u are so cute and funny lol...I loved this video. Very informative ❤And Baby J is so smart. She said you could eat the yams after eating candy to make your mouth go back to normal. That baby is smart❤❤❤

[@podatus1098]

Thank you for this!!!

[@mmps18]

Thank you for the info!!!

[@joannasarcamedes8191]

Thank you for this video i have wondered about the difference and varieties for a long time. I wished i could find yams but are not anywheres. I bake sweet potatoes like regular potatoes and eat them the same way or make a souflae out of them.

[@Lee-pm7ex]

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

[@daudreebaker4015]

This video was very informative and interesting.

[@SweetPotatoSoul]

Glad you think so! Thanks for watching ☺️

[@CaliforniaEBRDude]

Thank you for this very informative and interesting video! I find it very credible, and am a bit disappointed in myself for living in a false reality for more than 60 years. The only kind of sweet potato I ever saw until I moved out of my parent's house was canned "yams" which are quite horrible now that I look back on them. My wife and I eat baked FRESH sweet potatoes frequently. We will stop calling any of the yams. BTW, genuine yams imported from Ghana or other African nations are quite expensive. They're available on Amazon.

[@ReillyWilde]

🧡=sweet potatoes! 🍠 I made 3 bean vegan chili & topped it on wonderful roasted sweet potatoes-so delicious! 🧡🍠

[@SweetPotatoSoul]

Sounds so yummy!

[@Genevon-ty6bq]

This was something I have always wanted to know about! Thank you very much, young lady! I love you!!!

[@missrachelrue]

Salivating at the image of the Dekalb Farmers Market 🤤 man I miss that place!

[@weavingrainbow9063]

Right around the 6 minute mark, you talk about Japanese sweet potato.. is that the one that kind of tastes like chestnuts? Not water chestnuts, roasted, what you find on the streets of New York City. I was looking forward to this video, it's great... and now want to find the different varieties, or maybe I'll just try to grow them! 😁 I hope your daughter changes her mind about yams! Kids are funny about food. 😆

[@SweetPotatoSoul]

Yes, a delightful chestnut flavor. They sell them in the streets throughout Tokyo! Have fun finding these varieties of sweet potatoes and yams 🍠

[@TheSasquatchNation]

My girlfriend and I have been cooking up Japanese yams lately. But after watching this I’m convinced they are just another variety of sweet potato. However we dice them up and throw them in a cast iron skillet with fresh bacon grease. Then we add bone broth and let the broth boil down in to the yams/potatoes along with the bacon grease. Then we top it off with some truffle salt and occasionally add some spiced pepper. Great video, thanks for making it! 😎

[@alexandralawton3533]

In new Zealand we call the sweet potato kumara and our yams are very small and red

[@anthonydarnell]

I never knew there was a channel like this. Very informative. Just subbed. 👏👏👏

[@ggirl471]

I really need to get your book!!!

[@SweetPotatoSoul]

I agree 😉

[@AzBahati]

Yams are tasty, I cook them with peanut stew....and I love purple sweet potatoes. I juice them with different fruits of course.

[@ColoniaMurder20]

purple sweet potato is taste bland.. if you compare orange sweet potato is really sweet.

[@MrNioMoon]

Thank you for sharing. ❤

[@wendyhall5476]

Thank you soo much Sweetheart. Have always wanted to know!

[@Mzmona2023]

I love love loved this video!!

[@jarpyskitchen5299]

Sweet potato’s being all over African for centuries. In my country we eat the leaves too. They are very healthy. 🫶🏾🙏🏾

[@nnekababy]

Did you try Buford Hwy Farmers Market? I did check for yams but they have copious amounts of ginger from about 5 different countries.

[@VickiLee-tg5ck]

My favorite way to eat sweet potatoes is to make chocolate pudding with them! Best ever and so healthy. 🍠🍠 🍠

[@MzLisaD11]

WOW! That was very informative & I’m glad that you gave us this masterclass on sweet potatoes! I just didn’t know! My mom was from Mississippi, & “yams” were her thing! Can you list the website to order the Okinawa sweet potatoes? I love that purple color & can only imagine the nutrient content. I live in Ohio & we have limited supply of colored sweet potatoes. Thanks!

[@SweetPotatoSoul]

I buy all my sweet potatoes locally!

[@timdella92]

I’m Filipino and Purple Yam or Ube is very ubiquitous in our cuisine. We make desserts, hot and cold, out of it. Here in North America, they substitute Ube with purple sweet potato and some even call it Ube which is totally different in looks and taste. I just use grated purple yams in the frozen section of the Chinese grocery. I have yet to try White or yellow yams though.

[@Genevon-ty6bq]

They are native to Indonesia & Guinea or New Guinea. They were mentioned in a book written by a Missionary I know who went to minister with her husband.

[@HyouVizer]

My parents when I was kid could call me "sweet potato" and at thanksgiving and christmas family gatherings my aunt would make her sweet potato pies and "yams" i loved so much. I have such an affinity for the food and gravitated to your channel name naturally haha. Thank you for educating us on the difference, i had no idea any of this. Very eye opening

[@brwnsgr8034]

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

[@B_ready4671]

Love to roast sweet potatoes for brkfst, and now b/c or ur cookbook I love a sweet potato smothie❤

[@rebeccad2854]

What’s the deal with rue purple sweet potatoes, besides the higher price?

[@bqktwcommentary]

Its fun to bake sweet potatoes until almost done and then slice in half and put a banana or plantain in the split potatoes cook until banana or plantain is done .... yum Yum!😊

[@trikishasarden2566]

Candied sweet potatoes and yams are so good

[@stephan4410]

Thanks for the info tips....your face was so cute in the video prompt..."this is a sweet potato"...glad to see more vids of your expertise in these matters. Lol. But really, luv ur zeal! Plus you are so amazing! It's Janae right?

[@SweetPotatoSoul]

Thanks so much! Yes it's Jenné 😊

[@HelenaWaking]

We have different types of yams and sweet potatoes in the pacific. Some of our yams are very sweet.😊

[@JustJoia]

Well I definitely learned something new.

[@cosmicwisdom999]

So, yams are also very abundant in the Caribbean and South America and there are various types (purple, yellow, white) in Jamaica. The yellow we mostly soups. Further more sweet potatoes aren't orange, it's white and actually sweet unlike American sweet potatoes which is like a modified version of

[@samuelmatthews9092]

What are yucca and taro then as opposed to yams?

[@SweetPotatoSoul]

They're also root vegetables but in different families than yams.

[@cosmicwisdom999]

In Jamaica we called them ground provision. Yuca is cassava and all we taste differently

[@debraparmer5253]

Thank you, I have had this yam/sweet potato argument with my family for years!!!!!! I was right...of course

[@DrHeru]

Greetings! Can you please provide the name and location of the International Market you showed and mentioned in this video? I thank you in advance

[@SweetPotatoSoul]

It's the Dekalb Farmers Market in Atlanta :) I love shopping there!!

[@maryann4451]

So interesting!

[@TreasureChest0806]

When I buy organic sweet potatoes, sometimes I can only find the white so I eat those all the time.

[@RatedA4Aliens]

Very informative, thank you!

[@bethra.flowers]

Isn't that a Yuca or cassava? Or is that different

[@SweetPotatoSoul]

This is different. Looks like yucca kinda, right? The skin on yams is rougher

[@andrealee6191]

I only like Sweet Potatoes. Never Yam, because yams are wayyyyy too Mushy. 😝 Sweet Potatoes 👍🏼 In any color. Best are the Purple Potatoes, called Okinawan, very Nutritious! Plain color ones I love them too. Japanese name is Okinawa Potatoes 😋👍🏼👏🏼

[@Deyanira9944]

We eat yams alone boiled with any protein and gravy and put it soups and stews. 🇩🇴

[@brendafarris7350]

Excellent video! Yum

[@rickybraggs7813]

My fiance gets those purple ones from the Pan Asia Market here in Kansas City

[@kimberleyjones2942]

Yam fries are wonderful.

[@SweetPotatoSoul]

I bet!! I definitely want to try. Like yucca fries, right?

[@premadimauro2691]

Please add some cooking with sweet potato videos

[@SweetPotatoSoul]

Check out my channel and blog! I have MANY sweet potato recipes! It's even in the name of my whole brand :)

[@BeautiFuFu]

My Nigerian mom boils yams and adds some sugar to them and serves them with what we call “sunday eggs” 😌😋

[@rebeccad2854]

My beagle daughter loves sweet potatoes , plain of course.

[@rebeccad2854]

I’m from SETX & I have Louisiana fam .

[@bambihargrove6499]

❤😊❤THANK YOU

[@ritasmith8784ff]

Thanks

[@grey5626]

Ube is so good.

[@timbrown6629]

I always wondered what the difference was.

[@jimmyperales6945]

Where can you buy Yams?

[@cosmicwisdom999]

Ive seen them at almost all the supermarkets here in Florida including Publix, Walmart, Spanish and Caribbean supermarkets

[@brendaedith]

Lots of good info here!

[@alishadlewis]

I found this quite interesting.

[@BlUESKIES1178]

I love to yam sweet potatoes and yams.

[@gabrielaherrera3665]

Is your next cookbook going to be on soul food? I hope so. 🙏❤

[@SweetPotatoSoul]

It’s everyday recipes inspired by traditional southern food and global influences 😊

[@gabrielaherrera3665]

@@SweetPotatoSoul I'm so excited I can't wait

[@thomascollins9610]

Maple syrup or brown sugar

[@beanburrito8903]

Sweet potatoes🍠🍠🍠🍠 are so beautiful ❤️❤️❤️

[@lolab.8362]

Fufu and pounded yam are different though. Fufu is usually made from cassava.

[@salamalmahi541]

In Sudan we call sweet potatoes “Bambae” I wonder where that name came from

[@SweetPotatoSoul]

Cool name!!

[@2009dhani]

Sweet Potatoes are Ipomea batatas and Yams are Dioscorea alata.

[@firandcurly84]

she said y'all gone learn this today. It's the close up and rubbing of fingers for me.

[@jrloulanza6534]

Remember that episode of iCarly where T-Bo has yams on a stick and Carly mistakes them for sweet potatoes so T-Bo refuses to give Carly his yams on a stick cuz Carly can NOT tell her yam from her sweet potato. Really funny. 🤣🤣🤣

[@VICTORIA-rh6nt]

❤🎉TUSM FOR CLARIFYING

[@Platoon3090]

Great video

[@EricM-gm5wz]

Sweet potatoes are from South America, but the Polynesians took them back to Asia. Polynesians are the greatest ocean navigating culture in history. They were the people on Easter island making the big heads 🗿.Their culture began in Taiwan and ended up in Madagascar, next to Africa and Easter island, next to chile… think about that.

[@VICTORIA-rh6nt]

❤🎉SHOWS ONE HOW MUCH PEOPLE COPY WHAT OTHERS SAY JUST BY SAYING