Do you know all the colors of the Potato Rainbow?

Potatoes come in more colors than your standard grocery store fare.  In the grocery store, you may see white potatoes with brown skins, yellow potatoes or red-skinned potatoes, but you can find much more than that.

While you may have to look pretty hard to find them, you should try.  There really are potatoes to match almost all of the colors of the rainbow.  The exceptions are orange and green.  Well, you can find green potatoes but those are ones that have been exposed to light too long and have started to develop chlorophyll.  When the chlorophyll develops, so do some naturally-occurring toxins so you shouldn’t eat these.

There are no orange potatoes but if you want the color, you can use sweet potatoes which are neither potatoes nor yams, but that’s another article…

You can find red, pink, yellow, blue and purple potatoes.  Some of these will just have colored skin with whitish flesh but there are varieties that have color throughout the tuber.  Some of them taste amazing and are far more nutritious than the standard white potato.

Check it out!