Re: Re: Pt 2: How To Live To be A 100

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Good point.

I believe the inside is yellow or orange. Do you eat the purple skin?

I often find the chemicals in the plants in duke's database, but I can't always find if those chems are beneficial.

Is purple good?

Regards.

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From: karenlruss@...

Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 6:02 AM

Subject: [ ] Re: Pt 2: How To Live To be A 100

Delurking to mention that the famous Okinawan sweet potatoes are -PURPLE, in fact, screaming magenta purple! And potatoes as originallygrown in the Andes came in an astonishing range of colors, some ofwhich occasionally turn up in the gourmet produce bins. I wonder howmany interesting antioxidents we miss out on nowadays because we havelimited our foods to such a narrow range of preferred hues.http://tinyurl.com/6aqheThe Okinawan sweet potato--- In , " " <crjohnr@b...>wrote:> PS.. an interesting angle on foods we believe to be above question.Orange carrots are a recent variation (16th century). Older> carrots that we may have evolved eating were red, blue, andyellow... FWIW