Sweet Potato, Yam, Kumara

We recently went to a burger place that had kumara fries, which we were told are sweet potato fries. They were really good! The flesh was yellowish - not regular potato white, but not quite as orange as the sweet potato I'd gotten from the grocery store a few weeks ago.

Apparently what’s a sweet potato vs. what’s a kumara in Australia is just as confusing as what’s a sweet potato vs. what’s a yam in the United States!

Kumara is the Maori and Polynesian word for sweet potato. According to Taste.com.au, kumara is a variety of orange sweet potato grown in New Zealand. However, in Australia one may see any orange sweet potato labeled as kumara, sweet potato or orange sweet potato. That’s not confusing at all! ;)