Purple yam

Purple yam Also Known asKand.Purple Yam is an earthly, healthy and delicious food. Our family favors this vegetable for its unique and interesting texture and its beautiful color. Purple yams are tubers with grayish brown skins and purple flesh. They taste sweet and a variety of a true yam, which is known as "ube" or "ubi" in the Philippines. It has rough textured, dark colored skin and a light purple colored flesh. Purple yam is very gnarled looking in appearance and grows on a vine rather than underground. This has purple colored flesh but it has a light colored skin and is shaped like other varieties of yam.