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jamietwo wrote:The Sprouts where I shop almost always sells two varieties of "yams" and at least one variety that they label as "sweet potato". If one of your main starches was yams and you wanted to do an elimination diet using sweet potatoes in place of yams, would you trust the labeling?!
According to this site: https://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysterie ... otato.html
"Although yams and sweet potatoes are both angiosperms (flowering plants), they are not related botanically. Yams are a monocot (a plant having one embryonic seed leaf) and from the Dioscoreaceae or Yam family. Sweet Potatoes, often called ‘yams’, are a dicot (a plant having two embryonic seed leaves) and are from the Convolvulacea or morning glory family."
Both the sweet potatoes and the "yams" that Sprouts are selling are sweet potatoes. It certainly is confusing. I doubt Sprouts are selling true yams which are rarely sold in the US except in ethnic grocery stores.jamietwo wrote:The Sprouts where I shop almost always sells two varieties of "yams" and at least one variety that they label as "sweet potato". If one of your main starches was yams and you wanted to do an elimination diet using sweet potatoes in place of yams, would you trust the labeling?!
According to this site: https://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysterie ... otato.html
"Although yams and sweet potatoes are both angiosperms (flowering plants), they are not related botanically. Yams are a monocot (a plant having one embryonic seed leaf) and from the Dioscoreaceae or Yam family. Sweet Potatoes, often called ‘yams’, are a dicot (a plant having two embryonic seed leaves) and are from the Convolvulacea or morning glory family."
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