1, morphological differences: honey potatoes and smoked potatoes have significant differences in morphology. Honey potatoes have a smooth skin, the color is red or purple, juicy and yellowish flesh, soft and sticky taste. Smoked potatoes have a rough skin, usually brown or black in color, with dry and whitish flesh and a slightly hard texture.

2, nutritional composition difference: honey potatoes and smoked potatoes are starchy plants, but the nutritional composition is not the same. Honey potatoes are rich in dietary fiber, folic acid and vitamin C, is a low-calorie, high nutritional value of the ingredients, there are a lot of crude fiber is conducive to gastrointestinal peristalsis and defecation. While the smoked potato contains high carbohydrate and protein, but the nutritional value is relatively low.

3, the difference in use: honey potatoes and smoked potatoes also have different uses. Honey potatoes are suitable for baking, boiling, frying and other cooking methods, and can be used to make snacks, pastries and other desserts. Smoked potatoes have a harder texture and are mostly used for barbecuing or cut into thin slices as a snack.

Smoked potato is a new type of high-quality sweet potato variety selected and bred by the Yantai Academy of Agricultural Sciences through hybridization technology, generally referred to as "Yama 25". This sweet potato variety is not only delicate flesh, and sweet taste, yam potato 25 adaptability, less disease, high quality and high yield. The color of the flesh of the sweet potato may vary depending on the fertility and pH of the soil, and there are common varieties with red and yellow hearts. Honey sweet potato, also called big leaf red, big leaves, plus red skin and red heart, it is called big leaf red, some directly called "big leaf", or in southern Fujian called "big square", this is Zhangpu, Zhangzhou, Fujian, the local name, very graphic. Not all the leaves of this sweet potato are very large (some leaves are palm-sized, some are small), compared to other varieties, the overall leaf is relatively large; in the fertilizer and sunny conditions, the maximum vertical and horizontal margins of the leaves can reach 15-18cm.