Why feed your bird sweet potatoes? - Page 2

01-20-2008, 09:45 AM

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Originally Posted by jimpierce

Garnet Yams are what they call sweet potatos here. And sweet potatos are yams!! What thhe hey huh?

Does this mean that garnet yams are the right sweet potato to get? That's what I have been buying at the store.

01-20-2008, 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by FidLover

Does this mean that garnet yams are the right sweet potato to get? That's what I have been buying at the store.

While looking into this I found this site that says they are actually sweet potatoes.

Sweet Potato Awareness - Since 2006: Nutritional Deliciousness

01-20-2008, 01:12 PM

I know out here in California, Garnet Yams are really sweet potatos. Whats funny is canned sweet potatos are correctly named. Not called caned yams. Its nuts I tell ya!!

01-20-2008, 04:40 PM

I didn't know there was a difference- I thought they were just different names for the same thing!

01-20-2008, 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by maximum411

I didn't know there was a difference- I thought they were just different names for the same thing!

There sure is a difference in the vitamin A between the two. I will be sticking with the sweet potatoes for sure.

01-20-2008, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by maximum411

I didn't know there was a difference- I thought they were just different names for the same thing!

You may be on to something there!

I Yam What I Yam

Had the USDA not stepped in to require that all products labeled "yam"
also carry the label "sweet potato," perhaps things wouldn't be as confusing as they are now.
Yams vs Sweet Potatoes

01-21-2008, 06:36 AM

Well, according to that article posted by Big Blues, all the 'yams' sold in these parts are sweet potatoes. If the article is correct, I have never even eaten yams! And the pale yellow, crumbly, not so sweet potato is labeled (here in New York) 'Korean Sweet Potato' - I am personally partial to those. It gets very confusing!

01-21-2008, 12:15 PM

WOW!! Thank you so much for posting this! I have been wondering the same.

01-21-2008, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by 2horse

In Africa the reddish skin are called sweet potatoes, I have never seen the yellow ones.

yellow or white or NORMAL

I suppose that yellow is the normal ones http://www.global-b2b-network.com/di...4/Potatoes.jpg

we eat always this potatoes, lots of people dont know what is sweet potatoes. what do you think about the normal potatoes?

01-27-2008, 11:05 AM

I was looking up nutrition on Dandelion Greens this morning and found this;

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Good Nutritional Values for Veggies
On the other hand, vegetables did really well nutritionally. Green beans were OK but not great, but beet greens had an amazing 22,000 IU of vitamin A, as well as twice as much calcium as phosphorus. The broccoli leaf turned out to be the most nutritious part of that vegetable, having 4½ times as much vitamin A than the flowerette and 15 times that of the stem. Weird, huh? Corn, on the other hand, had an almost 1:13 calcium to phosphorus ratio! According to this chart, there really IS a difference between sweet potatoes and yams, with yams the hands-down winner, containing almost 1½ times the vitamin A as well as twice the calcium. (Nice to have THAT mystery solved!) As far as greens go, collards, endive, kale, beet greens and spinach were wonderful in terms of not only vitamin A, but also in their ratios of calcium to phosphorus. Parsley was excellent in both those categories, plus a hefty 20 grams of protein and 1½ times the vitamin C as an orange.
LET'S TALK ABOUT NUTRITION AGAIN

What do you think??