Annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous.
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Advocates of potato power will no doubt continue to keep chipping away.
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There had been numerous potato blights, some quite serious, in recent decades.
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Serve with potato wedges and vegetables, and some good ol' mulled wine.
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LOCAL government taxation is about to become the hottest political potato around.
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The result of the sweet potato's arrival was a highland population explosion.
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You can adjust this recipe to white potato if you prefer.
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The average analysis of the white potato is as follows:
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Meat: chop, steak, roast beef, lamb or chicken; white potato, baked or boiled rice.
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Oats to their bins, the white potato, the buckwheat of Michigan, to theirs;
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Avoid or minimize rice, and eat white potato only when cold after being cooked, to lower the GI.
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Starchy tubers of Solanum tuberosum are a staple crop and food in many countries.
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Potato ( Solanum tuberosum L.) is the world's most important non-grain food crop and is central to global food security.
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Plantain-trees, potatoes,* (* Solanum tuberosum.)
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Then came the Gold Rushes of the 1840s, and the miners on their way west introduced Solanum tuberosum, which we know as the potato.
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Solanum tuberosum (Solanaceae).-Tinzmannsays ('Gardeners' Chronicle' 1846 page 183) that some varieties are quite sterile unless fertilised by pollen from another variety.