Potato

The “famine” ended in 1849, when British troops stopped removing the food. While enough food to sustain 18 million people was being removed from Ireland,… Read More »What Stopped The Potato Famine?

The potato is a starchy tuber of the plant Solanum tuberosum and is a root vegetable and a fruit native to the Americas. Potato Genus:… Read More »What Is The First Name Of Potato?

potato, (Solanum tuberosum), annual plant in the nightshade family (Solanaceae), grown for its starchy edible tubers. The potato is native to the Peruvian-Bolivian Andes and… Read More »What Is A Potato Called?

batata. The word potato comes from batata, the Taino (a Caribbean language) word for sweet potato. The Spanish called it patata and that morphed into… Read More »What Is The Old Name Of Potato?

Potatoes grow well in temperate and humid regions, and wide, open spaces. In France, production is concentrated north of the Loire River, largely in the… Read More »Do Potatoes Grow In France?

Canada stopped sending P.E.I. potatoes to the U.S. in November, a decision designed to pre-empt an all-out ban after potato wart fungus — an otherwise… Read More »Why Is The Us Banning Canadian Potatoes?

Potatoes are not fruit, however. Potato plants do produce fruit, which look almost exactly like cherry tomatoes. However, the fruits of the potato plant are… Read More »Why Potato Is A Fruit?

But the potato, like the Catholic Church, is an import to Eire—potatoes are actually Peruvian, from thousands of years back, and didn’t make their way… Read More »Are Potatoes German Or Irish?

Not only do potatoes and other starches add carbs and calories to help you gain weight — they also increase your muscle glycogen stores. Is… Read More »Do Potatoes Help You Gain Weight?

It’s actually because it’s short for pommes de terre frites, or “fried potatoes”, or literally, “fried apples of the earth“. Because in a few languages,… Read More »Why Potato Is Called Apple?