Native potatoes are a source not only energy, but also contribute significant amounts of protein, fiber, minerals, and fat content is similar to the values of fruits and vegetables Native potatoes are highly valued by scientists and farmers for disease tolerance, organoleptic properties like taste and texture (quality and quantity of starch), and agricultural properties, since they tolerate adverse conditions such as drought, low soil fertility, frost, so they are an option growing in areas where these factors are limiting.

Today the native potatoes are grown for consumption as food security and is grown without chemical inputs (pesticides and fertilizers). As medicine is crushed and the liquid they take in diseases of the stomach in medicine can be used as an effective antispasmodic, also for insect bites, boils, burns and kidney stones.

medicinal what the shell is used in infusion to the kidneys, headache reliever finite slice and placed in the science It is said that the juice of raw potatoes preventing and combating gastric ulcers and relieves rheumatic illnesses. But the most important use of purple chips in relation to its medicinal use is as TOKOSH preparation.