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Purple potatoes So they provide a lot of the same benefits as sweet potatoes, plus one unique nutrient: They're known for containing large amounts of anthocyanins, a type of plant pigment that may ...
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These potatoes also have coloured skin, but many varieties with pink or red skin have white or yellow flesh, as do the vast majority of cultivated potatoes. The yellow colour, more or less marked, is due to the presence of carotenoids. Varieties with coloured flesh are common among native Andean potatoes, but relatively rare among modern varieties.
The 'Adirondack Blue' is a potato variety with blue flesh and skin with a slight purple tint, released by Cornell University potato breeders Robert Plaisted, Ken Paddock, and Walter De Jong in 2003. The 'Adirondack' varieties are purple and the skin may be slightly netted. Tuber dormancy is short.
This variety is a mutation (or sport) of the cultivar 'Burbank's Seedling' that was selected by the plant breeder Luther Burbank in 1873. The known lineage of Russet Burbank began in 1853 when Chauncey E. Goodrich imported the Rough Purple Chili from South America in an attempt to add diversity to American potato stocks which were susceptible to late blight.
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Popular fingerling potatoes include the yellow-skinned Russian Banana, [1] [2] the pink-skinned, yellow fleshed French Fingerling, [3] [4] the Purple Peruvian, [5] [6] and the Swedish Peanut Fingerling. [7] [8] Due to their size and greater expense compared to other potatoes, fingerlings are commonly either halved and roasted as a side dish or ...