Sweet potatoes, a staple of every Thanksgiving table<\/a>, are root vegetables with thin, fragile skin and moist texture. As their name suggests, they’re also sweet and loaded with vitamins A, C, and E, plus beta-carotene. Sweet potatoes are native to the United States and available in four varieties — Covington, Beauregard, Orleans, and Murasaki — in varying shades of copper, orange, and even purple. In the United States, "yam" and "sweet potato"<\/a> are erroneously used interchangeably, but they’re completely different vegetables. Yams are starchy with coarse brown skin and can grow up to 45 feet long. They’re consumed in Latin America, West Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia. Sweet potatoes, by contrast, are softer, with a moist texture and delicate, thin skin.
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