What are 3 interesting facts about potatoes?
10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Potatoes
- Each spud has a use.
- There are many, MANY potatoes you haven’t heard of.
- When you buy them, potatoes are still alive.
- A sweet potato isn’t actually a potato.
- Potatoes were first grown in South America.
- Potatoes were the first vegetable grown in space.
- Potatoes can turn green.
What are some cool facts about potatoes?
Potato Fun Facts: The potato is the most important non-cereal crop in the world, and fourth most important crop overall. Only corn, wheat, and rice are more important. In the US, potato products are the second most consumed food overall, trailing only dairy products. Potatoes are 80% water.
What is surprising about how potatoes are grown?
The most amazing way to grow potatoes generates a double whammy – that is, you produce not only potatoes but tomatoes as well. Growing the TomTato is a great space saver. A TomTato is a grafting of the top of a cherry tomato to the bottom of a white potato plant.
Is every potato unique?
No two potato cultivars are alike. Every type of potato or cultivar has been bred for a particular purpose. Boiling potatoes don’t necessarily fry well and baking potatoes don’t necessarily boil well. Potato cultivars recommended for boiling usually have interior flesh with a high water content and waxy texture.
What is the most biggest potato in the world?
The heaviest potato weighs 4.98 kg (10 lb 14 oz) and was grown by Peter Glazebrook (UK). It was weighed at the National Gardening Show at the Royal Bath & West Showground in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, UK, on 4 September 2011.
Why are potatoes so weird?
The short answer to that question is stress!!!!! Unlike people (who stress about mortgages and college educations for our kids), potatoes stress about heat and water!! The main cause of funny shaped potatoes is some type of environmental stress while the tubers are developing.
How long is longest potato?
An amateur gardener has grown the heaviest potato in the world. Peter Glazebrook grew the 8lb 4oz (3.8kg) spud in his back garden in Hallam, near Newark in Nottinghamshire. The prize potato was officially recognised by the Guinness Book of Records in September 2010, beating the previous record of 7lb 13oz (3.5kg).
What is the world record potato?
A potato grown by an amateur gardener in Nottinghamshire has been confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s heaviest. The 11lb (4.99kg) spud was grown by Peter Glazebrook in his garden at Halam, near Newark in Nottinghamshire.
