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Potato

A potato is a tuber: a swollen underground stem the plant uses to store energy for next year.

⚡ Carbohydrates🍊 Vitamin C🌾 Fibre

How it grows

Underground, from the stems of a leafy plant with white or purple flowers.

Where it came from

Peru, farmed for around 8,000 years.

🚚 From field to plate

  1. 1. Seed potato planted
  2. 2. Plant grows
  3. 3. Tubers swell underground
  4. 4. Harvest
  5. 5. Shop
  6. 6. Your oven

🤓 Fun facts

  • Potatoes were the first food grown in space experiments.
  • There are over 4,000 potato varieties in Peru.
  • The skin holds lots of the fibre.