The purple-fleshed sweet potato has a slightly sweeter flavour than the regular variety. However you can use it in all the same ways you use regular sweet potatoes – it just adds that extra pop of colour!
What color sweet potato is best?
Sweet potatoes with orange flesh are richest in beta-carotene. Sweet potatoes with purple flesh are richer in anthocyanins. Beta-carotene and anthocyanins are naturally occurring plant “phyto” chemicals that give vegetables their bright colors.
What is the sweetest sweet potatoes?
Beauregard Sweet Potatoes These potatoes have dark reddish-purple skin and deep orange flesh and tend to be quite large. They are the sweetest orange sweet potato on this list and are plenty juicy, making them a great all-purpose sweet potato.
What is the best tasting sweet potato?
The Japanese satsuma-imo is my absolute favorite sweet potato. It features beautiful dark-purple skin and pale yellow flesh than darkens as it cooks. These sweet potatoes are much denser than most of the orange varieties, and starchier, too.
Are yellow or purple sweet potatoes sweeter?
Purple sweet potatoes have a creamy texture and delicate, sweeter taste than their orange-fleshed cousins.
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