MONIN PURPLE SWEET POTATO SYRUP 70CL / 700ML

Purple sweet potatoes (sometimes mistakenly called purple yams or ube) are fun to work with and can be used in many of the same ways as the more familiar orange or white sweet potatoes. Though some varieties have white skin, cutting one open will reveal their whimsical eye-catching purple surprise. Popular in some Asian and Latin cuisines, they add a brilliant pop of colour to food and drinks.
What are purple sweet potatoes?
Pretty much everyone has a soft spot for aesthetically pleasing food, so when the internet discovered a purple root vegetable that could be used in cocktails, ice-cream, and even donuts, you better believe Instagrammers were all over it.
Purple sweet potatoes are root vegetables. There are two main varieties namely, Okinawa (white skin) and Stokes (purple skin) but they share the characteristic of having a deep purple flesh. The colour derives from anthocyanins, the same pigment that gives cherries, strawberries, purple carrots, and other vegetables their colour. Fascinating, isn't it? These sweet potatoes are easy to prepare. They're not as easy to find as regular sweet potatoes and are more of a specialty item, so they will cost a little more than your usual ones.
What does it taste like?
The purple-fleshed sweet potato has a slightly sweeter flavour than the regular variety. It’s rich, creamy and almost winey in flavour. They are also denser and drier than regular sweet potatoes.
The Sibling Rivalry: Purple Sweet Potato v. Purple Yam (Ube)
Sweet potatoes are grown underground while yams grow on a vine above the ground, though yams do look like a tuber. The two are commonly confused and mislabeled at the market. There are purple varieties of both vegetables.
The purple sweet potato made its way to Japan in the 1600's. Initially planted in Okinawa, the southern island of Japan, they were soon cultivated all over Japan. Purple yam (ube), on the other hand, is native to the Philippines and has a darker, rougher-looking skin that's brown an