Suddenly it seems there's no escaping ube. Native to the Philippines, this unique tuber, also known as purple yam, violet yam, or water yam, is on the fast track to ubiquity, popping up on ...

Transform your breakfast routine by making purple yam pancakes. All you need to do is mash boiled purple yams and mix them ...

Author, restaurateur and Food & Wine contributor Nicole Ponseca writes: "Philippine Purple Yam is a tuber almost exclusively grown in the Philippines and is otherwise commonly referred to as Ube ...

Let's talk about ube. The purple yam, which is pronounced (oo-beh), has been lazily dubbed as just another hipster trend or Instagram darling that you will soon be sick of — but those headlines ...

Once a traditional ingredient that was only found in Filipino cuisine, the bright lilac-hued tuber has now reached mainstream consumers with the introduction of Trader Joe's Ube Purple Yam Ice Cream.

Purple sweet potatoes? You see the sign in front of a basket of vaguely purple tubers at your local farmers market and you think, “Really?” ...

Even though both are starchy tubers, sweet potatoes and yams are not the same species or even in the same family.

Step into the fascinating world of agriculture with our captivating "Purple Sweet Potato Growing in 172 Days Time Lapse" ...

According to the Library of Congress, sweet potatoes got labeled as yams when African slaves called soft-flesh sweet potatoes “yams” because they resembled the tuber that grew in West Africa.