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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.

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