Purple sweet potato
Ipomoea batatas · Root vegetable
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The purple sweet potato is a colour class of Ipomoea batatas whose flesh is stained a vivid violet by anthocyanins rather than the orange beta-carotene of the everyday sweet potato. It covers types such as the pale-skinned, lavender-fleshed Okinawan and the dark-skinned, deep-purple Stokes Purple, all of them denser, drier and noticeably less sweet than orange kinds, with a nutty, faintly floral flavour.
Picking a good onedrag
Freshly dugSprouting
CuredBuy itTight skin, hard right through — roasts sweet and keeps for months in a cool, dark cupboard
SkinTight, smooth, evenly coloured
FleshHard end to end
EndsDry, clean, pale scars
SproutsNone
SmellClean earth, almost nothing
These cues are Sweet Potato's, and hold across its varieties; where this one differs, its own page says so.
What you get from one
72%
Edible part
130 g · peel and ends off
181 g
Weight each
each one
Keeping ittap a temperature
Never chill it raw: below 12.5 °C the core turns woody. Cooked, it keeps 3-4 days chilled.
85–90%
Humidity
Ventilated
Airflow