Is purple sweet potato a genetically modified food?

Perhaps people who have eaten purple potato can not remember when purple potato came into life, and the first person to get used to it is sweet potato. In modern life, genetically modified foods make many people panic. When they see some vegetables and fruits of unusual color, they think they are genetically modified foods. Is it possible that purple potatoes are genetically modified from sweet potatoes? Is purple potato genetically modified food after all?

Purple potato is not genetically modified food, it is produced by specific geographical conditions and breeding techniques. In fact, natural plants are of various shapes. The same thing, big and small, colorful. People only see a product of one size and one color, just because it is commonly planted by human beings.

Because of its high yield and wide adaptability, sweet potato is grown in many parts of the country. Sweet potato is called sweet potato in Beijing and Tianjin, sweet potato in Shandong, sweet potato in Henan, sweet potato in Anhui, sweet potato in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, sweet potato in Guangdong, sweet potato in Fujian, sweet potato in Sichuan.

In 1984, "Chinese Sweet Potato cultivation", sponsored by the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and compiled by dozens of well-known sweet potato experts, clearly pointed out that purple is one of the inherent flesh colors of sweet potato.