Don't trust grocery stores when buying this
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Published 2023-03-25
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All Comments (21)
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🍠 Does anyone know where I can get real ube root in the mainland US? I would like to plant some thank youuu
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The frozen ones are usually actually ube, especially if it’s product of the Philippines. Any fresh “ube” I know outside of the Philippines is just Okinawan sweet potato
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The US has been calling yams "sweet potatoes", and vice versa for decades.
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I never knew purple things like this existed. It's so pretty. This world is so wonderful
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In Nigeria, there's a fruit we call Ube. It's usually purple in color too. Interesting!
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That's because in America yam and sweet potatoes are used interchangeably. A lot of people don't realize that they're 2 different things.
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That is an okinawa sweet purple sweet potato. A japanese variant sweet tater. They also get labeled as hawaiian as well
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thanks for letting me know. I thought ube was purple sweet potato. It sounds so similar to ubi in indonesia. ubi = sweet potato. 😥 So I had a reason to be wrong. 😄
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I don't think I could ever trust a stranger to select my produce.
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Really wish the philippines would have like a PDO with ube products like in the EU and Japan, especially since it's such a culturally significant product. Kinda disappointing our government doesnt put resources towards it, especially when NGOs and academic bodies do so much with researching and protecting different endemic ube strains
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Aetas, an indigenous group in PH, would plant them and we would buy from folks who directly get it from them. Ube is a LOT heavier and bigger. Like 1kg of Ube would sometimes be just 1 piece of giant ube lol
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Those purple yams are delicious! I love the beige colored Japanese sweet potato as well. It’s like eating sweet potato pie but without all the sugar. Awesome healthy snacks
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I think ita good if you also include links about Erwan Heusaff's video about UBE, and the importance of protecting its Philippine legacy, because it tends to get watered down when it is not from the Philippines
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It's so easy to mix them up unless you grew up knowing ube, or learned it from someone who did. Because even when I google up "ube" I get images of purple sweet potato. I needed to have a filipino colleague confidently tell me what was an ube
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That's just what my mom teaches us. We're Dominican but a lot of our sweets have different ingredients. So my mom made Jalea de Batata last month. But unfortunately she had to dump the whole caldero/huge pot of it! Because they sold her the wrong Sweet Potato! She had cooked it and everything 😭😭😭❤️🔥 P.S. The way you opened that purple sweet potato reminded me of the way my mom has us break open Yucca to check if it's good 😂
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Dude like me workin at the store just saw they looked similar and did his job to his best degree 🤣 then goes home and wonders why some lady came up to him asking for purple yams 💀
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Here in the US we use yam and sweet potatoes interchangeably honestly most people here don’t know the difference between the vegetables for a long time I thought yam was just an old term for sweet potato 😅
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As a plant biologist, I feel your pain. This is why scientific names are important, as it cuts ut this kind of silliness
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Cool. I've heard that purple sweet potatoes may be partly responsible for some people in a blue zone that live longer then anyone else. 😂❤ They look yummy anyways
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Finally, someone speaks the truth 😍 I grow up eating these foods so I know the difference and taste. It irritates me when they mislabeled the names. Saying it's the same when it's too different in texture and colors.
