Dongchuan potato is a specialty of Dongchuan District, Kunming City, Yunnan Province. Dongchuan potato is popular in urban and rural markets, especially in hotels and restaurants, because of its high starch content, rich nutrition and good taste.
Dongchuan black potato is known as "the best of potatoes" because of its gorgeous color, compact appearance, unique taste and rich nutrition. Black potato is rich in trace elements such as iron, calcium, zinc and vitamins, among which black pigment has unique effects of losing weight and beautifying.
Dongchuan black potato is popular in urban and rural markets, especially in hotels and restaurants, because of its high starch content, rich nutrition and good taste. At the same time, it is also a good gift for courtesy exchanges.
Lizigou Village in Dongchuan District is located at the foot of Guniu Mountain, with an altitude of 2,211-2,711 meters, an average annual temperature of 11-18 degrees Celsius, high mountains and deep valleys, elegant environment and pleasant climate.
The soil types are mainly yellow brown soil and brown soil, with high natural fertility, good physical and chemical properties, and strong ability of maintaining fertilizer and water. It is rich in four nutrients, such as organic matter, available nitrogen, available phosphorus and available potassium, with a PH value of 5.2-5.9, which is especially suitable for potato growth.
Lizigou potato bred by unique growth environment and soil has red skin, golden flesh after cooking, waxy sand outside, sweet sand and excellent taste, commonly known as "flowering potato". It is rich in nutrients, especially crude fiber, protein, iron, vitamins CB1 and B2, and has the reputation of "Dongchuan potato".
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Dongchuan flowering potato:
"flowering potato". All the gourmets and foreign tourists who have tasted Dongchuan flowering potato are full of praise, saying that it is almost the most "crisp and sweet" potato in the world. There are two reasons for making "crisp, waxy and sweet" Dongchuan potato:
First, it is made because the soil in Dongchuan is rich in unique minerals and microbial communities, which seems that Kweichow Moutai is inseparable from the unique climate and hydrological environment in Maotai Town.
Second, people use more farmyard manure according to traditional planting methods and interplant "green manure" between seasons.
The "flowering potato" is named after its golden flesh color, waxy outside sand, crisp texture and waxy skin, which naturally cracks and forms a layer of starch crystals on the surface, which looks like petals stained with dew in the morning.
Dongchuan "flowering potato" has good quality and taste, and contains B vitamins such as vitamins B1, B2, B6 and pantothenic acid, a lot of high-quality cellulose, and also contains trace elements, amino acids, protein, fat and high-quality starch. In addition, the starch in potato is a kind of resistant starch, which can shrink fat cells.
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