Although yams and sweet potatoes are both angiosperms (flowering plants), they are not related botanically. Yams. Yams are closely related to lilies and grasses. Native to Africa and Asia, yams vary in size from that of a small potato to a record 130 pounds (as of 1999).ams are a monocot (a plant having one embryonic seed leaf) and from the Dioscoreaceae or Yam family. Yams. Yams are closely related to lilies and grasses. Native to Africa and Asia, yams vary in size from that of a small potato to a record 130 pounds (as of 1999).
Raspberry ketone occurs in a variety of fruits including raspberries, cranberries and blackberries. It is biosynthesized from coumaroyl-CoA. Extraction of pure raspberry ketone is usually 1â4 mg per kg of raspberries.ince the natural abundance of raspberry ketone is very low, it is prepared industrially by a variety of methods from chemical intermediates. One of the ways this can be done is through a crossed aldol-catalytic hydrogenation.
Opiates come from a group of drugs called narcotics and are derived from the opium poppy which is widely grown in Afghanistan.atural opiates occur naturally in the opium poppy and do not require any method of compounding in order to produce the drug. These are opiate alkaloids that are used exactly how they are when taken from the plant and they have analgesic effects without being mixed with other drugs or substances.