| 红薯 | hóng shǔ | sweet potato | |
| 马铃薯 | mǎ líng shǔ | potato | |
| 白薯 | bái shǔ | sweet potato | |
| 番薯 | fān shǔ | (dialect) sweet potato; yam | |
| 木薯 | mù shǔ | cassava, a tropical tuber plant |
| 1 | Before liberation he subsisted on wild potatoes. | |
| 2 | Health-conscious cooks could soon be serving up a new superfood - the purple potato. | |
| 3 | Sweet potatoes, carrots and other darkly colored fruits and vegetables contain substances that the body can change into vitamin A. | |
| 4 | While the researchers studied just purple potatoes, they believe that red and white skin potatoes would do the same. | |
| 5 | When you see the nutritional values accompanying this week' s recipes, you' ll find that sweet potatoes offer all of this at a relatively low caloric price. |