Yes there is. There are a number of varieties of sweet potatoes other than the familiar deep orange.
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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.
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Most potato plants have white flowers. Sweet potatoes are the only potato plants without white flowers. (they have no flowers)
Irish potatoes do have more electricity!They are also the yummiest!
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.
I believe the names are used interchangeably. Yes, they are the same thing. in America sweet potato is called yam. the Indian yam is not the same as sweet potato... sweet potato is long pink in colour and yam is also called the elephant yam is pretty big compared to sweet potato and round in shape.
I had never thought about using a sweet potato for salt extraction, but I always use a white potato. I think the sweet potato would flavor the foods whereas a white potato would absorb the flavor with the salt. An added note - don't leave the potato cooking until it completely cooks and gets soft or it will re-salt the food.
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no a sweet potato is a tubers
Sweet potato is a fibrous root because the potato itself is the root.