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Yacon Vs Sweet Potato. Yams tend to be starchy and dry with more of a mild taste compared to the sweeter creamier flesh of a sweet. The sweet potato especially the orange variety is often. Americans use the word yam to refer to a sweet moist orange-fleshedvariety of sweet potato. Lets make sense of it with scienceMaking Science Make Sense is Bayers national presid.
Many of the nutrients in potatoes and sweet potatoes contain compounds that act as antioxidants which protect the cells in your body against oxidative stress. The sweet potato especially the orange variety is often. It grows to about 5 tall with small sunflower like flowers. Start the cooking process. Subscribe to HuffPost today. Yacon is an interesting shrub native to South America and grown by a few select communities.
The young shoots and leaves are sometimes eaten as greens.
The roots are eaten raw and are sweet low in calories with a. This is important because oxidative stress is linked to heart disease cancer and brain diseases like Alzheimers. Dietitian Lindsay Malone MS RD CSO LD compares their. Yacon is healthy completely edible fully sustainable and is really fun to grow. It grows to about 5 tall with small sunflower like flowers. Although they share the name and look similar sweet potatoes are not closely related to potatoes and yams.