Fast Facts About Potatoes - Throughout America, potatoes are the most popular vegetable, even being ahead of other well known vegetables such as lettuce and onions. You can cook potatoes in various ways, and them including in one of three foods that are eaten almost all Americans. When they are prepared in a healthy way, a potato can be an excellent source of energy and also pack a nutritional punch.
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Like oranges, potatoes are very high in vitamin C. The fact is, one medium potato contains 45% of the vitamin C that's recommended for good health. Potatoes are also high in fiber and carbohydrates and contain more potassium than a banana.
Potato information from wikipedia.com :
Scientific classification
- Kingdom : Plantae
- Clade : Angiosperms
- Clade : Eudicots
- Clade: Asterids
- Order : Solanales
- Family: Solanaceae
- Genus : Solanum
- Species : S. tuberosum
- Binomial Name : Solanum tuberosum
Potatoes are naturally low in calories and contain without fat, sodium, or cholesterol. Leather of potatoes provide a dose of fiber, iron, potassium, calcium, zinc, phosphorus, and some Vitamin B.
You can prepare potatoes by boiling them, steaming them, or even roasting them. If at all possible,
you should avoid putting potatoes in the refrigerator or freeze it, because the cold will change the potatoes starch for sugar and cause them to become dark at times they are mature.
When you store potatoes, keep them cool and dark the place. Too much light will cause them to turn green. You can keep it in the dungeon if you have it one, because the basement is the best place to store potato.
From mashed potatoes to baked potatoes, a potato is something we all know and love. They serve
many different tasty foods, and they provide our bodies with plenty of healthful benefits. We all
eat potatoes, some of us even grow our own. Whether you grow your on or buy them, the potato is
the one vegetable that makes everything just a little bit better.
