Scott Farms Sweet Potato Chips

 Another offering from Tall Elegant taste tester, and another crispy snack I probably wouldn’t have bought myself. It’s not that I disapprove of sweet potato crisps or chips; it’s just that there are so many potato based products (and goodness knows what else besides) so I don’t usually buy vegetable crisps.

This is a nice little packet of crisps/chips illustrated with a sweet potato plant. Apparently sweet potatoes are related to convolvulus or morning glory, although I gather you should remove the flowers if you want a good crop.

Scott Farms are based in Evesham in Worcestershire in the UK. The address is Asparagus Way which is a wonderful name for a road; especially in Evesham which is a very important asparagus growing area. However, headquarters is in North Carolina.

These are quite small crisps - sweet potatoes curl up in the cooking - and lightly salted. A nice taste and a nice crunch.

Vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, coeliac friendly, GMO free, no added colours, grown and picked by Scott Farms and Hand Cooked in their skins. A lot of boxes ticked.

Scott Farms Orange, Purple & White Sweet Potato Chips

Tall Elegant taste tester visited the health food store and came back with this 100g packet of extremely handsome sweet potato crisps. And by extremely handsome I mean very pretty.

It's strange how a vegetable called a potato is not a potato. And sometimes it's called a yam... but this is a different vegetable in the South Pacific and New Zealand. Which is why you should never rely on "common names" but go straight to the Latin if you can. So your actual potato is a member of the Nightshade family Solanaceae along with tomatoes, and the Sweet Potato is a member of the Convolvulaceae like the morning glory flower, or bindweed. And hey! word fans, the word for potato comes from the Quechua (spoken in Peru) which a friend of mine speaks. Along with French, English, Spanish and very likely German.

Anyway, sweet potato crisps tend to have quite a dull crunch compared to potato crisps. but they certainly are attractive when you get three different colours in the same packet.

Nicely salted too. And a pretty packet. Spot the convolvulus flower?

Scott Farms products are made in North Carolina and imported by Scott Farms International based on the wonderfully named Asparagus Way in Evesham. Evesham is the heart of UK asparagus growing industry but it's still a wonderful name for a road.