Potato is one of the most common food in our daily life, but in recent years there is a kind of red potato, many people don't know much about red potatoes, and think that red potatoes are genetically modified.

Is red potato genetically modified

Red potato is genetically modified.

Red potatoes are the high-tech crystallization of aerospace breeding, the shape is round or oval, smooth surface, shallow bud eyes, is the latest successful selection of colorful potatoes in our country is quite representative of the varieties. Red potatoes skin and flesh all bright red or crimson, bright color, so was crowned with ruby potatoes or red rose potato name. In addition to a slightly lower starch content, its other nutrients are rich, conducive to human absorption.

The difference between red potatoes and normal potatoes

1, appearance

Red potatoes look like a sweet potato, and cut to look at, there is no difference between the inside and the sweet potato. It is actually potato.

Normal potato skin white or yellow, the shape of the stem block or oval. As for why the red potato skin is red, it turns out that this potato is derived from the potato variety called Taiwan red, and later screened to cultivate a new variety.

2, taste

Red potatoes and normal potatoes compared to not only do more time, and cooked faster.

Red potatoes can not only be fried, but also steamed, boiled, baked. The taste is very good, most people now prefer to eat red potatoes.

3, nutritional value

Red potatoes have a higher content of starch than normal potatoes, protein fat and other dry matter content is also higher, but also contains calcium and iron and other rich trace elements.

Red potatoes have the effect of tonifying blood and protecting the heart, preventing and combating cancer, delaying aging, beauty, preventing and treating high blood pressure and heart disease, the nutritional value is very outstanding, and the therapeutic effect is very obvious. Especially suitable for female friends to eat.