Not a single house in our country can do without potatoes. Unfortunately, most of the vegetables we sell are processed with hazardous chemical fertilizers. A natural question arises: how to choose the right potatoes? Our goal with you is to avoid the side of potatoes with a high content of pesticides and nitrates, as well as the ability to distinguish fruit full of nutritional value from "empty" useless tubers.
Instructions
Step 1
Different varieties of potatoes have different colors. The yellow color indicates a rich content of carotene, which improves visual acuity. Red-purple tubers contain anthocyanin, which serves as an anti-aging antioxidant for the body. Choose any variety you like, you will definitely not harm your health.
Step 2
But discard tubers with green spots. Such spots indicate the presence of a poisonous substance called solanine in the potato. It accumulates in vegetables when stored improperly and is extremely dangerous for the human body. Of course, if you find tubers with green spots in your home, be sure to get rid of the poisonous fruits.
Step 3
Look for sprouted potatoes. If there are even small sprouts on the fruits, this means that all the nutritional power of the vegetable is transferred to their growth and there are practically no vitamins left in the tuber. The presence of sprouts is not at all dangerous, but such a purchase is pointless.
Step 4
Check the packaging or documentation for the vegetables for the date of harvest. Potatoes can be stored for about one year. However, it is advisable to eat only fresh potatoes for three to four months after harvest.
Step 5
Since Russian young potatoes appear on the shelves only in summer, you can easily recognize which vegetables and where they come from. If it's winter outside, and the label says "Young potatoes", this is either an imported product, or not at all young vegetables of domestic deceivers. Be that as it may, make a choice in favor of albeit old, but Russian potatoes - they are not transported over long distances, which means they are not processed with additional chemicals. To keep vegetables at home in winter, buy later varieties of potatoes instead of early ones.
