beniharuka– tag –

On a cold evening in Tokyo, the aroma of yaki imo, Japan's roasted sweet potato, still drifts through shopping streets. Today, many vendors favor moist, intensely sweet cultivars, but Beniazuma once defined the classic fluffy style acros...

Beniharuka, officially registered in Japanese as べにはるか and commonly written 紅はるか in shops, is one of Japan's best-known sweet potato cultivars for moist, strongly sweet yakiimo. It has reddish-purple skin and pale flesh that tur...