The price of one kilogram of La Bonnotte potatoes can reach $700, making it the most expensive potato on Earth. Its ridiculous price doesn’t just have to do with its delicious salty flavor, but also with the fact that it’s very rare. This variety of potato is only cultivated on Noirmoutier, an island off the coast of western France, and just 100 tons are produced every year, mainly because they have to be picked by hand. La Bonnotte’s tuber remains attached to the stem making too fragile to harvest by machine, not to mention it also needs to be fertilized with algae and seaweed to give it that distinct earthy, salty flavor. Its fragile nature simply didn’t make it profitable enough for large agricultural companies, and it was only because of teh love and care of a few French potato lovers that it didn’t go extinct.
La Bonnotte is harvested by hand An interesting fact for potato breeders working hard to adapt potato varieties to market requirements: The small, fragile Bonnotte does NOT meet those criteria. In fact, La Bonnotte deviates so much, that at a certain point in the past the Noirmoutier potato cooperation banned its cultivation. Luckily that got corrected.
The price of one kilogram of La Bonnotte potatoes can reach $700, making it the most expensive potato on Earth. Its ridiculous price doesn’t just have to do with its delicious salty flavor, but also with the fact that it’s very rare. This variety of potato is only cultivated on Noirmoutier, an island off the coast of western France, and just 100 tons are produced every year, mainly because they have to be picked by hand. La Bonnotte’s tuber remains attached to the stem making too fragile to harvest by machine, not to mention it also needs to be fertilized with algae and seaweed to give it that distinct earthy, salty flavor. Its fragile nature simply didn’t make it profitable enough for large agricultural companies, and it was only because of teh love and care of a few French potato lovers that it didn’t go extinct.La Bonnotte is harvested by hand An interesting fact for potato breeders working hard to adapt potato varieties to market requirements: The small, fragile Bonnotte does NOT meet those criteria. In fact, La Bonnotte deviates so much, that at a certain point in the past the Noirmoutier potato cooperation banned its cultivation. Luckily that got corrected.
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