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bainidhe_dub:
Oh I heard a cool article the other day about how in large sections of Africa people farm sweet potatoes, but it's a variety that's either white or yellow inside! And only the orange ones from North America have vitamin A in them, and it turns out vitamin A is really crucial in preventing malnutrition and starvation - like even if people are getting "enough" calories if they don't get vitamin A there's still a really high death rate. So now they're introducing orange sweet potatoes to Africa and everybody's like yay yes I do not want to die I will pay extra for orange potatoes.
They also talked about scientists trying to do the same thing artificially through genetics to add important vitamins to other foods. And the slow reappearance of odd colored heirloom potatoes. (I feel so smart when I listen to NPR.)
Lines:
That's actually pretty cool!
bainidhe_dub:
found it: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/08/15/158783117/saving-lives-in-africa-with-the-humble-sweet-potato
pwhodges:
Calabrese can be purple.
So can lots of vegetables, though. I have grown purple French beans and purple potatoes.
Omega Entity:
We grow purple string beans in our garden. They turn a kind of an olive green when you cook them, though.
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