Sentences with phrase «true yams»

Yams are in the same family as sweet potatoes; true yams are not very common in the United States.
Fortunately, sweet potatoes and true yams are not part of the nightshade family despite their names, and do not exhibit the same tendencies as nightshades toward promoting leaky gut and inflammation in the body.
True yams can grow up to 100 pounds and attain a length of seven feet.
True yams are cultivated in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and Oceania and not traditionally in the United Stated or Canada.
Although orange - fleshed sweet potatoes have traditionally been referred to as yams in parts of the United States and Canada, they are not part of the same family as True Yams and therefore they are not really yams.
: True yams are starchy, white - fleshed tubers common to tropical countries.
From a science perspective, true yam is a root vegetable belonging to the Dioscoreaceae family, which are monocotyledons (or «monocots» for short, with the prefix «mono» referring to the fact that they have only one embryonic seed leaf).
Is this what you mean when you say yam or are you meaning true yam that is poisonous to eat raw and is cut off a very large tuber

Not exact matches

We don't celebrate thanksgiving here, but I definitely wouldn't mind some roast turkey or yams and marshmallows, Can't believe there is no baking required in this recipe, simply sounds too good to be true!
While it's true that grain - free dog food will always be gluten - free, grain bashers should know that in many storebought grain - free pet foods, grains have been substituted with other sources of carbohydrate like potato, sweet potato and yam that may or may not be at levels beneficial to your furkid.
Already situated as a single entity charged with representing a vast diaspora in the absence of true parity, Yams Collective ultimately chose to withdraw their work from the exhibition after failing to receive what they felt was an adequately sensitive response from the museum staff or Grabner regarding their concerns.
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