Except for the purple ube (not to be confused with the purple sweet potato), most types of yams generally have white or light-yellow flesh and rough, brown skin resembling tree bark. Their taste ...

Trinidad and Tobago is beginning to reap the benefits of Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley’s visit to Ghana, as the West African ...

The sweet potato is a New World root vegetable. There are hundreds of varieties and strains of those varieties, including various purple types. Any that are sold here as “yams” are almost ...

Leading Damayanthi to his backyard, he showed her the different kinds of ‘wel ala’ – tuber varieties known as yams - that were flourishing there with little attention. There were 17 different ...

Other Name(s): yam (but this term more correctly refers to the roots of the tropical species Dioscorea and is distinctly higher in starch and less sweet.) There are two basic types of sweet potato.

Wondering how to cure sweet potatoes after digging them up? Which varieties hold up best in storage? Read on to learn all about growing sweet potatoes at home. Sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas ...