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Old 27-07-2014, 07:48 PM posted to rec.gardens
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Default Most nutritious potatoes?

On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 11:11:05 -0700 (PDT), Higgs Boson
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Recently read that potatoes with "yellow" flesh are more nutritious. At Farmers
Market yesterday, asked potato guy. He agreed, but added that the MOST nutritious (can't remember what is the good stuff) were the purple fleshed ones.

Is this similar to Nature's continuum in leafy vegs? The darker the better?

(I bought a few just to see if I would get turned off by purple potato flesh. Not yet eaten. Stay tuned g).

HB


Regardless the color if you pare away the skins essentially all the
nutrition remaining is starch. And since other than starch potato
nutrition is for the most part in the skin flesh color is meaningless.