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  2. History of the potato - Wikipedia

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    Potatoes comprised about 10% of the caloric intake of Europeans. Along with several other foods that either originated in the Americas or were successfully grown or harvested there, potatoes sustained European populations. [47] The potato promoted economic development in Britain by underpinning the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century. It ...

  3. Potato - Wikipedia

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    The potato (/ p ə ˈ t eɪ t oʊ /) is a starchy tuberous vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world. Potatoes are underground tubers of the plant Solanum tuberosum, a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Wild potato species can be found from the southern United States to southern Chile.

  4. Timeline of food - Wikipedia

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    8000-5000 BCE: Earliest domestication of potato in the neighbourhood of Lake Titicaca. [20] ~8000 BCE: Wild olives were collected by Neolithic peoples [21] ~7000 BCE: Cereal (grain) production in Syria [17] ~7000 BCE: Farmers in China began to farm rice and millet, using man-made floods and fires as part of their cultivation regimen. [17]

  5. Man in England finds whole potato in bag of potato chips

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    Man in England finds entire potato in bag of potato chips

  6. Antoine-Augustin Parmentier - Wikipedia

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    Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (UK: / p ɑːr ˈ m ɛ n t i eɪ,-ˈ m ɒ n t-/, US: / ˌ p ɑːr m ə n ˈ t j eɪ /, [1] French: [ɑ̃twan oɡystɛ̃ paʁmɑ̃tje]; 12 August 1737 – 13 December 1813) was a French pharmacist and agronomist, best remembered as a vocal promoter of the potato as a food source for humans in France and throughout Europe.

  7. Why nutrition experts don't recommend eating raw potatoes - AOL

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    Raw potatoes do have more vitamin C than cooked potatoes, Shelley Balls, a registered dietitian and nutritionist for Consumer Health Digest, tells USA TODAY. "When boiling potatoes, vitamin C ...

  8. McDonald's Fries Are Really Made of Potatoes - AOL

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    Whole potatoes are lined up using high pressure water to go through a tube at speeds between 60 to 70 miles per hour through a potato cutter for precision cutting.

  9. Luther Burbank - Wikipedia

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    This particular potato variety was developed by Burbank and exported to Ireland to "revive that country's leading crop" [2] as it is slightly late-blight-resistant. (Late blight is a disease that spread and destroyed potatoes all across Europe, but caused extreme chaos in Ireland due to the Irish population's high dependency on potatoes as a crop.