Do you have to peel yams?

[jgenie]

Or are they like potatoes and have lots of nutrients in the skin?

[LMPC]

Here's a link to Whole Foods with some interesting information -- especially on conventional vs organic sweet potatoes.
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=64

In AL we always just roasted our sweet potatoes and them ate them whole with butter (everything is better with butter, right?!). I always figured the skin was good for you...if anything, it's added fiber!

[bubbaray]

I peel them if I'm cooking them in a casserole or stew or mashing them. I don't if I'm baking them -- we eat them like a baked potato.

I love yams!

[Melaine]

I think it's ok either way, but I like to steam them in my rice cooker in big chunks. Then the peel just almost falls off on its own....it's the lazy way of peeling!