also known as ube jam, is highly disputed. Americans specifically first made contact with ube in the 1890s during the country's occupation of the Philippines. Ube seeds also began to crop up in ...

Dioscorea alata is the plant’s scientific name. · Ube Jalea/Halaya (ube jam) is the most common and simplest way to consume ube, but there is no known history as to when Filipinos started to ...