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I don´t think so because if that was true, yams would be called sweet potatoes.Katia7 said:Are sweet potatoes the same as yams?
QuestionGuy said:potatooo
Missfit4all said:Wasn't it Pres. Clinton who spelled Potato with an E and caught hell 4 it?
Sweet potatos come from central America and are actually the storage root of the vine they grow on. They are a lot sweeter and moister than yams (they have less starch) and have more vitamin A than yams. They are smooth, small, thin skinned and 'blunt ended'.
There are a few types of sweet potato - the main two being different colours (yellow and orange). But basically, the only difference in these is that the orange one has more vitamin A. This is where lots of people gat confused as people sometimes use "yam" for the name of one of the deeper orange varieties of sweet potato....
Real yams are from Asia/Africa and are tubers, not roots. They are larger, are pale/white in colour (which also means they basically have no vitamin A) and are more starchy - so they are no-where near as sweet and moist. They are longer, have tapered ends and have thick skins.
Nutritionally speaking, yams are marginally better and have a lower GI and GL.
For 1/2 cup (cooked):
sweet potato
Cals - 103
protein - 2 grams
carbs - 24 grams
fat - <1 gram
fibre - 3 grams
GI - 61
GL - 17
yams
Cals - 79
protein - 1 gram
carbs - 19 grams
fat - <1 gram
fibre - 3 grams
GI - 37
GL - 13.2
thajeepster said:No, it was vice president quayle.. i probably mispelled his name
Missfit4all said:Jeepster, you are "O" so close!! Thank you for the Correction! It was in deed a "VICE PRESIDENT" but now that u mention it...i believe it was actually Vice President "Al Gore"
KentDog said:Actually Jeepster's right.. it was Dan Quayle; he's infamous for this and a lot of people think he's kind of an idiot because of this and other things (Murphy Brown Moral Poverty Speech for example).
Sorry - But I would not touch it with a ten food barge pole!j rizz said:any opinions on canned yams besides the negative thought that they are canned in syrup, but you can always rinse them off under water.
they are already cooked, peeled and cheap...what u think
Missfit4all said:when i heard it was a "Vice President" i knew Quayle was not and is when i referred to Al Gore? Please excuse the try?O."
KentDog said:You are half right.. Dan Quayle is a former Vice President. He served under the Bush administration (Bush SR.)