white potatoes
Starchy pale vegetables
White potatoes are the common, pale-fleshed varieties of potato as distinguished from sweet potatoes, which are botanically unrelated.
The term appears most often in recipes or grocery contexts where the distinction matters: The recipe calls for white potatoes, not yams.
Varieties include russets, Yukon Golds, and red potatoes—all considered white potatoes despite slight color variations in skin or flesh.
- spudPotato, colloquially
- tuberUnderground nutrient reservoir
- russetReddish-brown color
- fingerlingsJuvenile fish for stocking
- taterPotato, colloquially
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