Purple potatoes are a colorful way to love healthy eating | Cooperative Extension

Purple potatoes are a colorful way to love healthy eating | Cooperative Extension

February’s culinary stars include all manner of foods claiming to enhance feelings of love or improve heart health. With Valentine’s Day smack in the middle of the month, we may be enjoying amour-boosting chocolate from the beginning to the end of the month. Some people have other ideas for February’s focus.

February is also claimed as Potato Lover’s Month, and I’d like to make an argument for the benefits of eating potatoes, especially highly pigmented potatoes like Alaska’s own Magic Molly, perhaps not as an aphrodisiac, but for keeping our families and ourselves healthy.

Leslie Shallcross is a registered dietitian and the Tanana District health, home and family development agent for Cooperative Extension Service, a part of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, working in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She can be reached at 907-474-2426 or lashallcross@alaska.edu.

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