Although they're both purple and have a comparable sweet taste, there are distinct differences between the Okinawan purple sweet potato and the ube tuber. Okinawan purple sweet potatoes, very much ...

This Southeast Asian staple is having a moment in the sun. We reached out to Filipino food experts to learn more about ube and its newfound currency. It turns out that not every ube creation you see ...

You see the sign in front of a basket of vaguely purple tubers at your local farmers market and you think, “Really?” But six or seven years ago when Bryan Hager of Crager Hager Farm in Bremen saw ...

If you're an ice cream devotee, chances are you've seen ube — the bright purple yam from the Philippines — on the menus of countless ice creameries. Once a traditional ingredient that was only found ...

Our garden columnist is tackling a Thanksgiving debate: what is a sweet potato and what is a yam? And which one should you eat on the holiday?

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Yams have brown skin and white flesh. Sweet potatoes can have amber, tan, brown, reddish or even purple skin and flesh that ranges in color from white to orange or even purple. Yams range in size from ...

Ube Market was valued at US$ 455.3 Mn in 2024 and is projected to reach US$ 943.6 Mn by 2035, expanding at a CAGR of 6.9% ...

November means turkey, mashed potatoes and bright orange candied yams or, depending on who you ask, candied sweet potatoes. While some may use sweet potato and yam interchangeably, botanically ...

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