Colorful PotatoColorful potato was a general term for red, purple potatoes, and other new types of potatoes with different colors. There were many types of them, such as violet potatoes. Their skin was purple-black, and after cutting them open, they were purple and fleshy. The colors were distinct and they looked like a blooming purple flower, spreading outwards from the center.
The characteristics of the colorful potato were as follows:
- ** Appearance **:
- Compared to ordinary potatoes, there were differences in size. The larger ones were about the size of an egg, while the smaller ones were the size of a walnut. Its outer skin has a variety of colors. For example, the outer skin of the colorful potato in Huidong County has seven different colors, such as red, purple, yellow, green, white, black, etc. This is because it is rich in cyanidins and other coloring components. It presents different colors at different growth stages and environmental conditions. For example, the red outer skin contains a lot of cyanidins, and the purple outer skin contains more vitamins.
- After the colorful potato was cut open, the cross-section might be as colorful as a blooming flower, like a flower potato (also a kind of colorful potato). The outer skin looked ordinary, but after being cut open, purple and white interweaved. Some of the inner parts were radiating purple-red, with distinct layers. The unique flower pattern was like a blooming purple-red rose.
- ** Quality:
- There may be special requirements for soil and climate. Some use special planting methods such as not applying chemical fertilizers or spraying chemicals, so that they have the special quality of small potato shape, beautiful color, delicious taste, and rich nutrition. Trace elements are easy to absorb, especially rich in calcium. For example, in 2004, the Colorful Potato (including the Colorful Potato) obtained the certification of the Ministry of Agriculture as a nuisance-free agricultural product. In 2006, it was identified as a "Green Food A-grade" product by the China Green Food Development Center.
- It was more resistant to storage and transportation than ordinary potatoes. It could be stored for a long time and was not easy to deteriorate.
- ** Nutritional value **:
- In addition to the nutritional components of ordinary potatoes, it was also rich in cyanidins, vitamins and other ingredients. It had stronger anti-oxidization ability and nutritional health effects, such as anti-oxidization, lowering blood sugar, promoting digestion, and so on. It also had the effect of strengthening the body and losing weight.
In terms of cooking, the common way of eating in the local farmers was to cook. Taking violet potatoes as an example, after peeling and washing, put a small amount of water in a large pot of potatoes, cover it with a straw lid, first heat it to the top of the lid and start to emit a large amount of steam, then slowly cook it with a slow fire. When the water in the pot dried up and smelled the burnt fragrance of the potatoes, immediately remove the open fire and leave a little charcoal fire to bake for ten or twenty minutes. After being cooked, it could be eaten with water or ham sauce. The texture was crisp, soft, fragrant, and scattered. In addition, the common cooking methods of potatoes, such as sour and spicy shredded potatoes, potato omelet, potato stewed beef, spicy shredded potato cake, etc., were also suitable for the colorful potato.
Colorful potato was planted in many places in Yunnan. The planting area of colorful potato in Huidong County was located at an altitude of 1500 to 2300 meters. The land was fertile, sunny and rainy, suitable for its growth. The quality of the colorful potato from different origins may vary. For example, the colorful potato from the mountainous area of Qujing Huize driving village grew purely naturally without pesticide and fertilizer, so it was relatively small; while the potato from Lijiang was big and cultivated with fertilizer in the planting base, so its nutritional value was far inferior to the former.
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