This helpful animated short created by Eva Hill explains the difference between a Sweet Potato and a Yam.
Enjoy!
When you go to buy potatoes you generally just have to pick a color or a name, because whether they’re red, russet or fingerling they’re all called potatoes in the end.
But their tuberous root cousins are named sweet potatoes and yams even though they seem to be as similar to each other as two different kinds of potatoes. So what’s in a name?
