{"id":148640,"date":"2020-01-02T02:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=148640"},"modified":"2020-08-05T22:46:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T05:46:09","slug":"difference-yams-sweet-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/difference-yams-sweet-potatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Yams vs. Sweet Potatoes: Here\u2019s What You Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thekitchn.com\/whats-the-difference-between-yams-and-sweet-potatoes-word-of-mouth-211176\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yams and sweet potatoes are often mixed up<\/a>, but they&#8217;re actually completely different vegetables.<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0So the n<\/span>ext time you&#8217;re grabbing your weekly groceries, here&#8217;s how to tell the difference between the two.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Texture<br \/>\n<\/strong>A yam\u2019s skin is bumpy and rough with a blackish or brown color that almost resembles tree bark, and a sweet potato often has a smooth texture and is a reddish-brown color.<\/p>\n<p><b>Shape and flesh<br \/>\n<\/b>Yams are shaped like cylinders, and when you cut into a yam, the flesh may be white or purple. Sweet potatoes are long and tapered at the ends and come in a variety of colors: white, yellow, red, purple, or brown. When you cut into the sweet potato, you may find a white, yellow, red, purple, or orange-ish color.<\/p>\n<p><b>Taste<br \/>\n<\/b>Yams are less sweet and much more starchy compared to sweet potatoes.<\/p>\n<p><b>Cost<\/b><br \/>\nYams can cost as little as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bonappetit.com\/story\/difference-between-sweet-potato-and-yam\">79 cents per pound<\/a>, and\u00a0the more trendy sweet potatoes can cost around $2.49 per pound.<\/p>\n<p>xx, The FabFitFun Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"Yams and sweet potatoes are often mixed up, but they're actually completely different vegetables.\u00a0So the ...","author":7532780,"featured_media":148965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[268],"tags":[],"thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/02115939\/yams.png","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/02115939\/yams-386x200.png","formated_date":"January 2, 2020","category_name":"Food &amp; Drink","category_icon":"","author_name":"Stephanie Taylor","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#a1f26f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7532780"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}