1, the color of the skin is different: the color of the skin of red potatoes is vermilion, while the color of the skin of yellow potatoes is yellow.

2, the taste is different: red skin potatoes eat is more soft and sticky, but also more sweet, and yellow skin potatoes contain more starch, so the taste is not so rich.

3, the flesh color is different: red potatoes flesh is purple, and yellow potatoes flesh is yellow, with the color of the skin is not different. Red skinned potatoes originated in Peru, South America. Red-skinned potatoes originated in Yichang City, Hubei Province, the hometown of Zhaojun Xingshan County, Wufeng Tujia Autonomous County and Changyang Tujia Autonomous County, is generally grown in the altitude of one thousand two hundred meters above the place.