Yams and sweet potatoes are two very different plants. Yams are more closely related to lilies, while sweet potatoes are more closely related to morning glories. Sweet potatoes are sweeter and tend to ...

Sweet potatoes are often mistaken for yams and may be mislabeled as yams in U.S. grocery stores. ... Scientists can use the diosgenin in yams to produce estrogen, progesterone, ...

Calling sweet potatoes yams in America wasn’t just a money-making ploy. ... not the sort of produce you’ll find squeezed into a grocery bin. There are more than 800 varieties of yams, ...

Sweet potatoes and yams might look super-similar in the grocery store, ... You spot them over in the corner of the produce section, tucked between the onions and garlic.

Storing ube . If you are able to source ube in fresh form, you should not store the whole ube in the refrigerator, as you would other starchy vegetables.

The House of Representatives on Thursday urged the Federal Government to boost yam tuber production through targeted incentives to the farmers from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Nigerian ...

With yam being Jamaica’s primary agricultural export, ... who was part of a three-week training programme with WUSC, attended the symposium out of her personal interest to produce more yams.

The sweet potatoes make it full circle, from District 6's farm and back to the plates of its students. "We grow them locally, and they get put into our schools," said Glackin.

Courtney Taylor, a yam farmer from Trelawny, which is a major producer of the produce, says the crop is viable at this time despite the challenges. “When a crop earns more than US$40 million in ...