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It depends which plant is used for the starch. Some of the names are simply based on the name of the plant.Some major examples are:Cassava (or Manioc): Tapioca, Farinha, Gari.Potato: Potato Starch.Sweet Potato: Sweet Potato Starch.Taro: Poi.Yam (not the same plant as Sweet Potato): Yam Starch.Arrowroot starch is made from a variety of different plants.
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.
Sweet potato is a fibrous root because the potato itself is the root.
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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.
In rhizomes - i.e the 'root ginger' part of the ginger plant, and the 'potato' part of the potato plant. Howeve the potato is a tuber, not a rhizome.
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.
The Kumara is the Maori sweet potato.