New kyoto news (journalist) potatoes are really a very good food, whether they're steamed or boiled or fried, and they don't taste bad. But have you ever seen a perfect black potato? It's not like it's broken. It's like a yellow potato in shape. It's black and purple, it's dark and bright, it's very nutritious and it's soft。

Gansu's black potatoes. Interviewee for map
In early april, at a workshop dedicated to the production and marketing of agricultural products in poor areas, journalists from the village channel of the newspaper shinjing met for the first time with black potatoes originating from the tibetan autonomous district of gansu province. In front of the pavilion, the director, fu wei, was surrounded by a number of people, and was busy giving interviews, when he told the journalist that “tien wished the black potato production base was located on the eastern slopes of the qilian mountains, 3,000 metres above sea level in the interior of the country, with a special geographical location, where the light, heat and soil requirements for the black potato were so strong that there was no contamination of the entire growth process”. A lot of people who come to the show have tasted the steamy black potatoes, and they say they're good。

Black potatoes cut open in black and purple. Interviewee for map
According to journalists, the origin of the black potatoes is in peru, south america, but the low yields and black colours have been ignored. Lee yanming, a senior expert in the potato field, is well aware of this potato: “the black potato is rich in plume, with 1,700 milligrams of plume per 1000 g of black potatoes, with various vitamins, minerals, health elements, etc. For human needs, so that black potatoes are not genetically modified foods, are not space-grown foods, and are of high nutritional value, but there are no black potatoes growing in beijing, which, for reasons such as geographical location, is not suitable for black potatoes”。

Black potato chips. Interviewee for map
“the black potatoes are grown in april of each year, in october, for about 50 days, over a long period of time, up to six to eight months, precisely because gansu, like peru, is a high-altitude area in order to produce high-quality, flower-rich black potatoes. At present, the retail price of black potatoes is $5 per pound, and the wholesale price is $3 per pound. We have planned to transport large quantities to beijing so that more people can taste our black potatoes”. Fu wei also described a number of diets of black potatoes, such as roasting, steaming, cooking and squeezing, which are nutritious, in addition to french fries, chips, black potato salad, black potato mashed, black potato silk and so on。
The reporter for the new kyoto newspaper, joo-doo, editor, tang xiao
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