I boiled mine and got 'Smoke on the water'.

It's what Prince would have wanted.

I can only imagine after eating these :confused:

I never meant to cause you any sorrow
I never meant to cause you any pain
I only wanted to one time to see you laughing
I only wanted to see you
Eating Purple Chips

Purple chips, purple chips
Purple chips, purple chips
Purple chips, purple chips
I only wanted to see you
Eating Purple Chips

I never wanted to be your weekend lover
I only wanted to be some kind of friend
Baby, I could never steal you from another
It's such a shame our friendship had to end

Purple chips, purple chips
Purple chips, purple chips
Purple chips, purple chips
I only wanted to see you
Eating Purple Chips

Honey, I know, I know
I know times are changing
It's time we all reach out
For something new, that means you too

You say you want a leader
But you can't seem to make up your mind
I think you better close it
And let me guide you to the purple chip aisle

Purple chips, purple chips
Purple chips, purple chips
If you know what I'm singing about up here
C'mon, raise your purple chip

Purple chips, purple chips
I only want to see you
Only want to see you
Eating Purple Chips

Great post. I wish I'd written mine out like yours rather than my "purple potatoes are good for you" statement :smile:
I couldn't remember where in Japan the study was from so thank you for posting that.

There was an interesting BBC program about long life and staying young which showed some evidence that naturally purple foods are very good for you.
See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03q0lnd

Allow me to educate you on this matter then :smile: The purple colouring in foods such as these are known as anthocyanins, these have a positive physiological component to the plant, meaning they're useful for the plant, and they have definite positive health effects in humans, the Okinawan diet (A Japanese island) with a large percentage of centenarians (people aged 100 years or more) contains purple sweet potato as a component of the diet.

http://www.okicent.org/study.html

The orange carrots we eat were originally purple,

http://nowiknow.com/carrots-were-originally-purple/

Dutch growers in the 17th Century managed to cultivate them as yellow/orange and these lack the useful/healthy anthocyanins. So in fact our modern diet has reduced the consumption of anythocyanins and other useful phytochemicals.

So rather than being a fad it's actually rather good sense to eat purple food and in fact to eat a rich variety of varying coloured foods, this feeds the gut microbiome (bacteria in the gut) which science is now demonstrating have a significant effect on our mood, general wellbeing via production of useful chemicals some of which are butyrate, GABA and Serotonin amongst others.

IIRC wild type potatoes in S. America (their origin) are purple.

believe I saw these in Iceland stores as well... Heat added, thanks for sharing!

Yes, I was going to comment this also, I woulder if this is a coincidence. have bought some but yet to try them. Iceland also have carrot chips in same section.

There are much less in the cooked potato than raw but still significantly more than a white potato.

The higher the temperature, the more that will become denatured so boiling is probably best and roasting somewhere between boiling and frying.

Bacon flavour? :smile:

Q). Will baking them or boiling them also ruin the polyphenols?

Can someone get this guy his jacket...

I believe I saw these in Iceland stores as well... Heat added, thanks for sharing!

I never meant to cause you any sorrow
I never meant to cause you any pain
I only wanted to one time to see you laughing
I only wanted to see you
Eating Purple Chips

Purple chips, purple chips
Purple chips, purple chips
Purple chips, purple chips
I only wanted to see you
Eating Purple Chips

I never wanted to be your weekend lover
I only wanted to be some kind of friend
Baby, I could never steal you from another
It's such a shame our friendship had to end

Purple chips, purple chips
Purple chips, purple chips
Purple chips, purple chips
I only wanted to see you
Eating Purple Chips

Honey, I know, I know
I know times are changing
It's time we all reach out
For something new, that means you too

You say you want a leader
But you can't seem to make up your mind
I think you better close it
And let me guide you to the purple chip aisle

Purple chips, purple chips
Purple chips, purple chips
If you know what I'm singing about up here
C'mon, raise your purple chip

Purple chips, purple chips
I only want to see you
Only want to see you
Eating Purple Chips

If you like purple potatoes, Lidl are selling "Dragon egg" potatoes, which appear almost black, but when roasted they have an almost gold sheen on them. And when you cut them open, they are a lovely, deep purple! Can't remember the price off hand, but they're in a "mini foods" promotion where you get 20% off if you buy any 3 items!

The crap that's coming out now,

Wonder how many sols a bag of purple chips will last

Its because purple potatoes are packed with Polyphenols which are antioxidants.

Frying them though removes that benefit. You can buy Purple Majesty potatoes though from Ocado and some markets and do what you like with them.

Tell that to Matt Damon!

If these are not dyed and naturally purple then they should be very good for you. There is a documentary of a small island in Japan where the population live mainly off purple potatoes and all are in exceptional health due to the nutrients from said purple potatoes.

Donkeys are being born without hind legs because of all the chemicals we put in their chips

nope.

purple chips are amazing! prefer them over normal coloured ones any day! :smiley:

Purple(chip) people eater, by the Chipmunks... https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=song+purple+eater&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-ab&gfe_rd=cr&ei=3fUvWcvWDbP38Aed6aQg#newwindow=1&safe=off&q=alvin+and+the+chipmunks+purple+people+eater&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgFuLRT9c3LDYwLSzIzkpSAvMKTbOqzCsrqrS0spOt9HNLizOT9YtSk_OLUjLz0uOTc0qLS1KLrPJLMlKLFMpSi4oz8_OKAbDZ_chKAAAA

nice with donuts.

It's what Prince would have wanted.

I boiled mine and got 'Smoke on the water'.

nom nom.