The difference between potatoes and sweet potatoes?

     There were often times where I wondered about the difference between potatoes and sweet potatoes each time that I had seen them in the vegetable section of my neighbourhood stone.

        I thought that there was very little difference between potato and sweet potato besides the taste, I was wrong.

        Although derived from the same order of Solanales which indicates an order of flowering plants, they ultimately end up being in the different families with your typical potato, also known as Solanum Tuberosum, being in Solanacea family, while the sweet potato known as Ipomoea Batatas being in Convolvulaceae family.

     Their order commonality and their family difference shows that those two tubers are only distinctly related, although they share some similarities on other levels.

      Both come from the American continent, specifically Central and South America, both became staple foods around various parts of the world.

     Notably, China was the biggest producer of both of those tubers, with an average production of 81.7 million tons of sweet potatoes and 88.9 million tons of potatoes.

       This goes to show the importance of those vegetables in human diet!

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