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A tuber so unrelated to the regular potato it's basically a morning glory in disguise.
means A starchy, sweet-tasting root vegetable with usually orange flesh, grown from a trailing vine and unrelated to the common potato.
from The word 'potato' itself came to English through Spanish 'patata,' which blended the Taíno word 'batata' (the sweet potato) with the Quechua 'papa' (the Andean potato) — so the two foods were tangled together in language long before botany separated them. The 'sweet' was tacked on later to tell the genuinely sweet batata apart from its starchy namesake. Fittingly, the original 'potato' Europeans first met was actually the sweet one.
- family ties
- Botanically a morning glory, not a true potato
- orange myth
- True yams are a totally different African plant
- survival food
- Sustained sailors and survived nuclear-test soil studies
- leaf bonus
- Its leaves are edible and nutrient-dense too
- color range
- Comes in purple, white, orange, and yellow
beauregard sweet potato — most widely grown cultivar in the us, representing 50% of commercial production
okinawan purple sweet potato — distinct purple variety from okinawa, japan, with high anthocyanin content
garnet yam — deep red variety developed at louisiana state university, often mislabeled as yam in us markets