Category: Vegetables

The purple tuber, known as satsuma-imo, is similar to a regular sweet potato, high in antioxidants and healthier than a white potato. The satsuma-imo trumps the Idaho white with fewer carbs (24 grams vs. 37 grams) and calories (113 vs. 170). What is the difference between sweet potato and Japanese sweet potato? Japanese sweet potatoes […]

Choose small to medium sweet potatoes that are heavy for their size. Avoid any with bruises or signs of sprouting. Orange-fleshed sweet potatoes should have uniformly colored skin. The skin of light sweet potatoes is naturally more mottled. How do you buy fresh sweet potatoes? Yams have a rougher brown exterior, while sweet potatoes have […]

Unlike regular potatoes, which are tubers, sweet potatoes are considered to be root vegetables. The root, however, is described as a tuberous root. Both sweet and regular potatoes grow under the soil, but they are very different when it comes to density, taste and nutrition. Are sweet potatoes and carrots the same? While they look […]

Due to their growing requirements, sweet potatoes are primarily grown on a large commercial scale in the southern United States. Since 1971, North Carolina is the leading sweet potato production state, producing approximately 60 percent of all sweet potatoes grown in the country (USDA NASS, 2020). Do we have sweet potatoes in the US? In […]

Sweet Potatoes, often called ‘yams‘, are a dicot (a plant having two embryonic seed leaves) and are from the Convolvulacea or morning glory family. Sweet potato cultivar Ruddy (left) is sweet and moist and resists insects, unlike the leading U.S. cultivar Beauregard. Is there another name for sweet potatoes? Both yams and sweet potatoes are […]

yams. Since the “soft” sweet potatoes slightly resembled true yams, they picked up the name and became what you see labeled as “yams” in most U.S. grocery stores. What are sweet potatoes called at the store? yamA sweet flavor. Sometimes called a yam in U.S. grocery stores. Sweet potatoes originated in South or Central America. […]

By the time Christopher Columbus arrived in the ‘New World’ in the late 15th century, sweet potatoes were well established as food plants in South and Central America. Columbus brought sweet potatoes back to Spain, introducing them to the taste buds and gardens of Europe. When were sweet potatoes brought to America? The first Europeans […]

Sweet potatoes are still an important part of Southern cuisine, and they are gaining popularity in the broader U.S. as well. Why are sweet potatoes popular in the South? The southern migration of the plant was much more successful than the northern, again, because of the plant’s need for warm temperatures. Native Americans were known […]

Sweet potatoes are root vegetables that are native to the USA. They have delicate skin and a sweet tasting moist texture. Depending on the variety, sweet potato flesh can vary from white to orange and even purple. Did sweet potatoes come from America? Sweet potatoes originated in Central and South America. But archaeologists have found […]

The sweet potato is widely cultivated in tropical and warm temperate climates and is an important food crop in the southern United States, tropical America and the Caribbean, the warmer islands of the Pacific, Japan, and parts of Russia. Where do sweet potatoes originate from? tropical South AmericaSweet potato is thought to be native to […]

Sweet potatoes are native to South America and were introduced to Africa in the 1600s via Portuguese trade routes. Where did sweet potatoes originally come from? The earliest cultivation records of the sweet potato date to 750 BCE in Peru, although archeological evidence shows cultivation of the sweet potato might have begun around 2500-1850 BCE. […]

Products he invented using sweet potatoes include: wood fillers, more than 73 dyes, rope, breakfast cereal, synthetic silk, shoe polish and molasses. He wrote several brochures on the nutritional value of sweet potatoes and the protein found in peanuts, including recipes he invented for use of his favorite plants. Did George Washington Carver use sweet […]

The sweet potato, which is native to the Americas, was likely used by African slaves as an alternative to the yam found in their homeland. Why do black people eat sweet potato? The sweet potato first found success in Europe and later in America due to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, which forced the migration of […]