There are 5 major differences between a potato and a sweet potato, only a couple of which are easy to detect.
Color - A sweet potato will be darker inside than a potato.
Sweetness - A sweet potato has about 4 times the sugar of a potato, enough to detect by taste.
Sodium - Although undetectable by taste, a sweet potato has about 10 times the sodium
Vitamin A - A sweet potato has more than 1000 times the Vitamin A than a potato
Beta-Carotene - A sweet potato has more than 1000 times the beta-carotene than a potato.
A sweet potato
It's smoother, less stringy. I think it is the best of both worlds. It is still quite sweet like the sweet potato, naturally sweeter in my opinion. I could eat a white sweet potato plain...but would need butter and sugar for the orange sweet potato.
Some delicious recipes that feature spongy sweet potato as the main ingredient include sweet potato casserole, sweet potato fries, sweet potato pancakes, and sweet potato pie.
no a sweet potato is a tubers
Any rooting herbivore or omnivore would eat a sweet potato, which is the tuber root of the sweet potato plant. This would include wild pigs and bears.
Sweet potato is a fibrous root because the potato itself is the root.
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There are 5 major differences between a potato and a sweet potato, only a couple of which are easy to detect. Color - A sweet potato will be darker inside than a potato. Sweetness - A sweet potato has about 4 times the sugar of a potato, enough to detect by taste. Sodium - Although undetectable by taste, a sweet potato has about 10 times the sodium Vitamin A - A sweet potato has more than 1000 times the Vitamin A than a potato Beta-Carotene - A sweet potato has more than 1000 times the beta-carotene than a potato.
Some creative recipes using canned sweet potato pie filling include sweet potato pie bars, sweet potato pie milkshakes, sweet potato pie pancakes, and sweet potato pie truffles.
A sweet potato is a vegetable. Sweet potato's are considered to be a root vegetable because it grows underground. The sweet potato is pinkish orange in color.
Sweet potato reproduces by roots that can grow into new sweet potatoes. -Note that the reproduction methods of the sweet potato and potato are different.