Native potatoes: Know their curative benefits on cancer and other diseases
This May 30th is celebrated in Peru, the National Day of the Potato, in which the nutritional value is recognized.
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Native potatoes: Know their curative benefits on cancer and other diseases
This May 30 is celebrated in Peru, the National Day of the Potato, which recognizes the nutritional, gastronomic and historical value of the potato, which is an important source of food around the world.
These potatoes are made without pesticides and chemical fertilizers, so they are used as alternative remedies for certain diseases as well as cancer.
Native potatoes in home remedies
According to the website 'Medicinas Naturistas' (Naturist Medicine) , native potatoes as medicine are crushed and the liquid is taken for stomach diseases. In medicine it can be used as an effective antispasmodic, also for insect bites, boils, burns and kidney stones. Within the traditional medicine its shell is used in infusion for the kidneys, and placed in the temples and forehead in slices with salt becomes a powerful tranquilizer for migraines and fever.
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The colour of the potatoes indicates the properties and nutritional value, where the Andean potatoes where the yellow color predominates, are the ones that contain great amount of Vitamin C. The color of the potatoes indicates the properties and nutritional value, where the Andean potatoes where the yellow color predominates, are the ones that contain great amount of Vitamin C. The juice of raw potatoes prevents and fights gastric ulcers and relieves rheumatic diseases. But the most important use of red, purple potatoes are their antioxidant effects that turn a food that should be in patients with cancer problems or people who simply want to prevent degenerative diseases.
Antioxidant, Anti-Cancer Filled Native Potatoes
The Institute of Potatoes and Andean Crops of the National University of Trujillo Lima-Peru, cultivates blue, red and purple potatoes, they study their content in anthocyanins and carotene, natural antioxidants and anticancer substances. Researcher Eloy López said the potatoes are very rich in polyphenols (they act as natural antioxidants that protect the human body).
In addition, the Andean potato is an economical alternative for the home. In more than twenty varieties it is on sale for fifty cents a kilo.
The potato is a natural food used as a main resource by many people daily, in several occasions, the potato turns out to be the basic food of the daily diet of the inhabitants of the world. One of the things that makes the potato interesting is its versatility in food.
It is possible to prepare it in many different dishes, combine it with different foods and use it in different culinary presentations. The price of the normal potato for these days takes away the sleep to the housewives, because it is an irreplaceable product in the home kitchen, the kilo is sold in La Quiaca for one USD or more.
Temperatures below zero records and abundant rainfall in the south of the country conspired to generate shortages in greengrocers where people come to shop daily.
The abrupt and very high rise in the price of potatoes, a fundamental element in the table of Argentines, is not a problem for the northern zone. Of course, the almost uniform price of one USD that could be observed in greengrocers' shops and stalls in the central market of Quiaquia was very far away, not to mention the fifty cents that the kilo of the product cost with much smaller units. Until the situation returns to normal, we should not forget that, like any seasonal product, its prices suffer unforeseen fluctuations due to climatic contingencies.
However, the Puna jujeña has other alternatives to perfectly supplement the southern product, is the Andean potato that in more than twenty varieties is for sale in any greengrocery at a reasonable price, per kilo is quoted at 75 cents being another alternative to take care of the home economy.
In other cities also the product can be obtained, clear the own idiosyncrasy of the inhabitant does that it adopts another name as soon as it crosses the arc of entrance to the city of The Quiaca, papines, potato of the north and an endless one of epithets, always wanting to differentiate to the citadino, of whom with his own hands the sowing and harvest.
With the high price of the southern potato the competent authorities should realize that Jujuy has its own natural production and strengthen the undertakings of those who are engaged in this activity. Many times Puno producers must return with their products or are confiscated on the route by merely bureaucratic instances, or do not have an adequate space for sale and must make them retail, at least is the situation in the border town. So we must ask ourselves how long we are going to continue consuming everything from the outside, if we have too many potatoes.
Properties of the Andean potato
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The Andean potato is a food of good nutritional level that performs proper energy functions, as well as regulatory functions of the body for its high content of water-soluble vitamins, minerals and fiber. In addition, it has a not negligible content of proteins and a relatively high biological value within foods of plant origin. According to its main characteristics, the potato also called collar is composed of water, minerals, vitamins and low starch content.
It is a good source of energy and has the highest carbohydrate and protein content within the family of root and tuber crops; it is rich in vitamin C and contains one fifth of the daily recommended value of potassium. Its caloric value depends on how it is cooked, if it is fried or is part of a stew, increase calories, but if it is boiled, a puree is prepared or cooked in the oven or steam, you get to retain its nutritional properties and subtract calories.