One particular pizza sure is turning heads and racking up views − but not because of the cheese, toppings or sauce. It's because of the purple pizza crust. Yes, you read that right. The uber-popular ...

The Japan-based flavor company T. Hasegawa might have named ube as its 2024 flavor of the year, but many people around the world have been singing ube's praises for decades (and longer). The tuber ...

A box of assorted ube treats from San Francisco’s Buko Bakes—one of 23 vendors who will be on hand at this year’s Yum Yams festival. (Buko Bakes) When Gemma Ballesteros opened her Filipino bakery ...

No, it’s not your imagination: A number of San Francisco’s top bartenders have placed earthy purple piña coladas on their menus lately, flavoring and coloring the Puerto Rican cocktail with ube from ...

Ube Joe-Joes ($3.69) – Trader Joes makes Joe-Joes in a several flavors, including Ube. For those who don’t know, Joe-Joes are sandwich cookies like Oreos. I expected a simple vanilla sandwich cookie ...

With its eye-catching color and sweet-but-subtle flavor, ube has been on dessert menus everywhere over the past few years. A staple in Filipino cooking for generations, ube became Instagram-famous ...

I'm going to let you in on a little secret. That lovely purple ice cream you see just above isn't black raspberry flavored. It's made of a vegetable called ube (pronounced "ooh-bae"). And no, this isn ...

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Purple yams, or ube, are nutritious, versatile, and starchy root vegetables. They are loaded with antioxidants that may help reduce blood pressure and blood sugar levels. Dioscorea alata is a species ...