Look at the skin Sweet potatoes usually have a relatively smooth skin that's tan, copper or red in color. Yams tend to have a dark brown/gray skin that's much thicker, stringy or barklike than the skin you'd find on a sweet potato. 20 нояб. 2015 г.
How do you tell a sweet potato from a regular potato?
Sweet potatoes typically have brown skin and orange flesh but also come in purple, yellow, and red varieties. Regular potatoes come in shades of brown, yellow, and red and have white or yellow flesh.
How do I know if I have a sweet potato or a yam?
In spite of all of the confusion, it's quite easy to tell yams from sweet potatoes:1Yams have dark, bark-like skins with a white flesh. Some have purple or red flesh. Yams are drier and starchier than sweet potatoes and are even made into flour.2Sweet potatoes have gold or copper/bronze skins and moister orange flesh.
What potato looks like a sweet potato?
Boniato is also known as a batata, Cuban sweet potato, white yam, Florida yam, camote, kamote, Caribbean sweet potato, or kumara—but again, it's not a yam. It is also very similar in appearance and taste to what's referred to as a Japanese sweet potato.
