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:''For the Levantine god of the untamed sea (sometimes called Yam), see Yaw (god).'' Yam is the common name for members of the genus ''Dioscorea'' (family ''Dioscoreaceae''). There are more than 150 different varieties of yam. Some species are cultivated for the consumption of their starchy tubers in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The word ''yam'' comes from Portuguese language ''inhame'' or Spanish language ''ñame'', which both ultimately derive from the Wolof language word ''nyami'', meaning "to eat". They are used in a similar fashion to potatoes, and are sometimes called a potato substitute, though in areas where yams are grown, potatoes are the newer vegetable. Yam tubers can grow up to seven feet (approx. two meters) in length and weigh up to 150 pounds (approx. 68 kilograms). The yam has a rough skin which is difficult to peel, but which softens after heating. Yam skins vary in color from dark brown to light pink. The majority of the yam is composed of a much softer substance known as the "meat". This substance ranges in color from white to bright orange in ripe yams. Yams are a primary agricultural commodity in West Africa and New Guinea. They were first cultivated in Africa and Asia about 8000 B.C., probably because they were able to flourish in environments where growing leafy vegetables and keeping livestock was difficult. To this day, the yam tuber remains crucial to survival in the region; it can be stored for four to six months without refrigeration, which makes it a valuable resource for the yearly period of food scarcity at the beginning of the rainy season. ===Preparation=== Yams must be cooked to be safely eaten because various natural substances in raw yams can cause illness if consumed. Preparing some species of yam is a time-consuming process, involving days of pounding, leaching, and boiling to remove the toxins. Yams may be served boiled or pounded into a paste. In the Philippines, the ''ube'' variety of yam is eaten as a sweetened dessert called ''halaya'', and is also an ingredient in the fruity, pudding-like ''halo-halo'', another [http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Tagalog/Tagalog_Default_files/Philippine_Culture/halo_halo.htm popular Filipino dessert]. An exception to the cooking rule is the Japanese mountain yam (''Dioscorea opposita''), known as ''nagaimo'' or ''yamaimo'' depending on the root shape. It is eaten raw and grated, after only a relatively minimal preparation: the whole tubers are briefly soaked in a vinegar-water solution, to neutralize irritant oxalate crystals found in their skin. The raw vegetable is starchy and bland, mucilaginous when grated, and may be eaten plain as a side dish, or added to noodles. ===Yams and sweet potatoes=== In the United States, the sweeter varieties of the sweet potato (''Ipomoea batatas'') are often mistakenly called "yams". Sweet potato "yams" are widely available in United States food stores. True yams are only found in specialty markets such as those that serve Asian or Caribbean communities. In contrast, New Zealand uses the word "yam" to refer to the oca (''Oxalis tuberosa''), and the word "kumara" to refer to the sweet potato. ==External links and resources== * See also the United States Department of Agriculture's [http://plants.usda.gov/cgi_bin/plant_profile.cgi?symbol=DIOSC Plant Profile] for a complete list of 28 yam species. * Purdue University's [http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/FamineFoods/ff_home.html Famine Foods Database] includes a page about how various [http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/faminefoods/ff_families/DIOSCOREACEAE.html ''Dioscoreacea'' species] are used. * The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research [http://www.cgiar.org/impact/research/yam.html information page on yams]. * [http://www.foodreference.com/html/fyams.html Food Facts & And Trivia: Yams] * [http://www.hungrymonster.com/FoodFacts/Food_Facts.cfm?Phrase_vch=Vegetables&fid=5936 Vegetable Food Facts, History and Timelines] * [http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/africa/food/ African Foods] * [http://www.ghana.co.uk/food/Glossary/Vegetables.htm A Taste of Ghana] * ''The African Table'' by Jessica Harris. Simon & Schuster: 1996. ISBN 068481837. Root vegetables Liliopsida bm:Ku minnan:Soaⁿ-io̍h

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== French name == I think the corresponding fr: article should be :fr:Igname for the genus rather than the current :fr:Dioscoréacée, which is the family. User:A-giau 06:41, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC) == Wild Yam == It would be nice to add some info about the pharmaceutical uses of Wild Yam.User:FreplySpang 22:45, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)


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Yamabe_no_Akahito
Yamabushi
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Yamada
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Yamada,_Iwate
Yamada,_Miyazaki
Yamada,_Toyama
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Yamada_Arinaga
Yamada_Arinobu
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Yamada_Futaro
Yamada_Nagamasa
Yamada_Takayuki
Yamada_Yoji
Yamada_Yôji
Yamada_Yooji
Yamada_Yoozi
Yamada_Youji
Yamada_Youzi
Yamada_Yozi
Yamada_Yôzi
Yamadera
Yamadera,_Yamagata
Yamadera_Kohichi
Yamadera_Koichi
Yamadera_Kôichi
Yamadera_Kooichi
Yamadera_Kouichi
Yamadera_Mika
Yamae,_Kumamoto
Yamaga
Yamaga,_Kumamoto
Yamaga,_Oita
Yamagata
Yamagata
Yamagata,_Gifu
Yamagata,_Ibaraki
Yamagata,_Iwate
Yamagata,_Nagano
Yamagata,_Yamagata
Yamagata-ken
Yamagata_Aritomo
Yamagata_Broadcasting_Company_Limited
Yamagata_Broadcasting_Corporation
Yamagata_District
Yamagata_District,_Gifu
Yamagata_District,_Hiroshima
Yamagata_Hiro
Yamagata_Hiroo
Yamagata_Prefecture
Yamagata_Prefecture
Yamagata_prefecture
Yamagata_Shinkansen
Yamagawa,_Kagoshima
Yamaguchi
Yamaguchi
Yamaguchi,_Nagano
Yamaguchi,_Yamaguchi
Yamaguchi-gumi
Yamaguchi-ken
Yamaguchi_Broadcasting_Company
Yamaguchi_Broadcasting_Company_Limited
Yamaguchi_Kappei
Yamaguchi_Mitsuo
Yamaguchi_Momoe
Yamaguchi_Prefecture
Yamaguchi_Prefecture
Yamaguchi_prefecture
Yamaguchi_Tamon
Yamaguchi_Tomoko
Yamaguchi_Yuriko
Yamaguti
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Yamaguti_Kappei
Yamaguti_Mituo
Yamaguti_prefecture
Yamaha
Yamaha
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Yamaha_Corporation
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Yamaha_DragStar
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Yamaha_DX-7
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Yamaha_motorcycles
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Yamaha_P-250
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Yamaha_Phazer
Yamaha_Phazer
Yamaha_P_250
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Yamaha_qy-10
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Yamaha_qy10
Yamaha_RD350
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Yamaha_YM2612
Yamaha_YM3526
Yamaha_YM3526
Yamaha_YM3812
Yamaha_YMF262
Yamaha_YMF7xx
Yamaha_YZF-R1
Yamaha_YZF-R1
Yamaha_YZF-R7
Yamaichi_Securities
Yamakasi
Yamakawa,_Fukuoka
Yamakawa,_Tokushima
Yamakawa_Kenichi
Yamakawa_Kenjiro
Yamakita,_Kanagawa
Yamakoshi,_Niigata
Yamakoshi_District,_Hokkaido
Yamakuni,_Oita
Yamalia
Yamalo-Nenets
Yamalo-Nenetskiy_Avtonomnyy_Okrug,_Russia
Yamal_(icebreaker)
Yamal_(icebreaker)
Yamal_Airlines
YAMAM
Yamamba
Yamamomo
Yamamoto
Yamamoto,_Akita
Yamamoto,_Kagawa
Yamamoto,_Miyagi
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Yamamoto_District
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Yamamoto_Gonbee
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Yamamoto_Ichiro_Archive1
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Yamamoto_Mirai
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Yamamoto_Yuzo
Yamamura_Bocho
Yamamura_Sadako
Yamana
Yamanaka,_Ishikawa
Yamanakako,_Yamanashi
Yamanaka_Ino
Yamanaka_Sadao
Yamanami_Keisuke
Yamanashi
Yamanashi
Yamanashi,_Yamanashi
Yamanashi-ken
Yamanashi_Prefecture
Yamanashi_Prefecture
Yamanashi_Prefecture
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Yamanashi_prefecture
Yamanasi
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Yamana_Sogen
Yamana_Souzen
Yamana_Sozen
Yamanba
Yamanobe,_Yamagata
Yamanokuchi,_Miyazaki
Yamanote
Yamanote_Line
Yamanote_Line
Yamanote_line
Yamanote_Sen
Yamanouchi,_Nagano
Yamantaka
Yamaoka,_Gifu
Yamar
Yamar
Yamar
Yamas
Yamasachi-hiko
Yamasaki,_Hyogo
Yamasaki_Taku
Yamashiro
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Yamashiro,_Tokushima
Yamashiro_Province
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Yamashita's_Gold
Yamashita's_Gold
Yamashita's_gold
Yamashita's_gold
Yamashita_Tatsuro
Yamashita_Tomoyuki
Yamaska_(electoral_district)
Yamataka_Eye
Yamata_no_Orochi
Yamate
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Yamate_Bluff
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Yamato
Yamato
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Yamato,_Fukushima
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Yamato,_Ibaraki
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Yamato,_Kanagawa
Yamato,_Niigata
Yamato,_Saga
Yamato,_Yamaguchi
Yamato,_Yamanashi
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Yamato-e
Yamato-Takada
Yamatoe
Yamatoji_Line
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Yamato_class_battleships
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Yamato_gun_(StarCraft)
Yamato_Ishida
Yamato_Ishida
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Yamato_ishida
Yamato_Kenichi
Yamato_Kenichi
Yamato_line
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Yamato_Period
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Yamato_prefecture
Yamato_Province
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Yamato_Province,_Japan
Yamato_Province,_Japan
Yamato_Waki
Yamato_weapon
Yamatsuka_Eye
Yamatsuri,_Fukushima
Yamauchi
Yamauchi,_Saga
Yamauchi_Fusajiro
Yamauchi_Hiroshi
Yamauti_Fusaziro
Yamauti_Hirosi
Yamazaki_Maso
Yamazaki_Tsutomu
Yamazaki_Wakana
Yamazoe,_Nara
Yama_District
Yama_District,_Fukushima
Yama_Raja
Yama_Uba
YAMB
Yambe-akka
Yambean
Yambol_(region)
Yambol_Province
Yambol_Region
Yambo_Records
Yamcha
Yamdok_Yumtso
Yame
Yame,_Fukuoka
Yame-akka
Yamen
Yame_District,_Fukuoka
Yamfun
Yamhill
Yamhill,_OR
Yamhill,_Oregon
Yamhill_County
Yamhill_County,_OR
Yamhill_County,_Oregon
Yamhill_County,_Oregon
Yamhill_County,_Oregon
Yamhill_District_and_Morrison/Southwest_3rd_Avenue_(MAX_stations)
Yamhill_River
Yami
Yamid_Haad
Yamila_Diaz
Yamila_Diaz-Rahi
Yamillette_Aponte_Anvil
Yamim_Nora'im
Yamim_Noraim
Yaminasaw
Yaminon
Yamit
Yami_(ethnic)
Yami_Bakura
Yami_Marik
Yami_no_Bakura
Yami_no_Game
Yami_no_Matsuei
Yami_no_Yugi
Yami_no_Yûgi
Yami_no_Yuugi
Yami_to_Boshi_to_Hon_no_Tabibito
Yami_to_Bosi_to_Hon_no_Tabibito
Yami_to_Boushi_to_Hon_no_Tabibito
Yami_to_Bousi_to_Hon_no_Tabibito
Yami_Yugi
Yamje
Yamje
Yamkhad
YAML
Yamla
Yamloo
Yammage
Yammage
Yammah
Yamma_Mosque
Yamma_Mosque
Yammosk
Yammy_Yamathorn
Yammy_Yamathorn
Yamna
Yamnaia
Yamnaya
Yamna_culture
Yamnuska
Yamoto
Yamoto,_Miyagi
Yamoussoukro
Yamoussoukro,_Cote_d'Ivoire
Yamoussoukro,_Côte_d'Ivoire
Yamoussoukro_Basilica
Yampa
Yampa,_CO
Yampa,_Colorado
Yampa_River
Yampp
Yams
Yamucha
Yamuna
Yamuna
Yamunanagar
Yamuna_River
Yamuna_river
Yamunotri
Yamusangie,_Frederick_Kambemba
Yamusukro
YAM_(Yet_Another_Mailer)
YAM_(Yet_Another_Mailer)
Yam_bean
Yam_Kuen_Tsang
Yam_Laranas
Yam_O
Yam_O_(MTR)
Yam_O_(MTR)
Yam_O_Station
Yam_Sthruss
Yam_Wakka_Nay


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