• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

CooksInfo

  • Home
  • Recipes
  • Encyclopaedia
  • Kitchenware
  • Food Calendar
menu icon
go to homepage
search icon
Homepage link
  • Recipes
  • Encyclopaedia
  • Kitchenware
  • Food Calendar
×
You are here: Home / Vegetables / Root Vegetables / Potatoes / Floury Potatoes / Caribe Potatoes

Caribe Potatoes

Caribe are large-sized, oblong potatoes with purple skins and white flesh.

The purple can be darker or lighter with patches of tan, but it goes pale in storage.

Early harvest.

Cooking Tips

Despite being a purple-skinned potato, the potato is floury, and makes very good mash.

It is also good for potato chips (aka crisps in the UK.)

History Notes

Caribe Potatoes were developed in 1969 by Hielke de Jong, a native of Holland and D. A. Young for Agriculture Canada at its Research Station in Fredericton, New Brunswick from a cross between two potatoes referred to as “F55066” and “USDA X96-56.”

During development, the potato was referred to as “F69026.”

Released 1984.

This page first published: Jun 27, 2004 · Updated: May 18, 2018.

This web site generates income from affiliated links and ads at no cost to you to fund continued research · Information on this site is Copyright © 2021· Feel free to cite correctly, but copying whole pages for your website is content theft and will be DCMA'd.

Tagged With: Canadian Potatoes, Floury Potatoes

Primary Sidebar

Search

Home canning resources

Vist our satellite site Healthy Canning for Home Food Preservation Advice

www.hotairfrying.com

Visit our Hot Air Frying Site

Random Quote

‘When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.’ — Craig Claiborne (American food writer. 4 September 1920 – 22 January 2000)

Food Calendar

food-calendar-icon
What happens when in the world of food.

NEWSLETTER

Subscribe for updates on new content added.

Footer

↑ back to top

About

  • About this site
  • Privacy Policy
  • Copyright enforced!
  • Terms & Conditions

Newsletter

  • Sign Up! for emails and updates

Site

  • Recipes
  • Encyclopaedia
  • Kitchenware
  • Food Calendar

This web site generates income from affiliated links and ads at no cost to you to fund continued research · The text on this site is © Copyright.