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The average potato has 0.075 mg solanine/g potato, which is equal to about 0.18 mg/kg based on average daily potato consumption. [ 19 ] Calculations have shown that 2 to 5 mg/kg of body weight is the likely toxic dose of glycoalkaloids like solanine in humans, with 3 to 6 mg/kg constituting the fatal dose. [ 20 ]
These potatoes also have coloured skin, but many varieties with pink or red skin have white or yellow flesh, as do the vast majority of cultivated potatoes. The yellow colour, more or less marked, is due to the presence of carotenoids. Varieties with coloured flesh are common among native Andean potatoes, but relatively rare among modern varieties.
Critchfield said Mart Frozen Foods plans to produce other potato-related products at its plant under the OH!Tatoes brand. The company unveiled its $65 million, 100,000-square-foot manufacturing ...
It was charged with managing the supply of fresh table potatoes in Western Australia. [2] The statutory corporation operated to ensure licensed growers supplied potatoes all year round to the WA consumer market. [3] The corporation was self-funded by revenue from licence fees and did not receive financial support from the state government. [3]
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.
Australia is the world's largest producer of wool. [49] The Australian wool industry was worth $3.6 billion in 2022. [50] The total number of sheep is estimated to be 75 million. [49] In the late 1980s, the sheep flock was 180 million. [51] Only 5% of Australia's wool clip is processed onshore. [50]
The Pusztai affair is a controversy that began in 1998. The protein scientist Árpád Pusztai went public with the initial results of unpublished research he was conducting at the Rowett Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland, investigating the possible effects of genetically modified potatoes upon rats.
It is found in northern Australia, from Western Australia, through the Northern Territory, to Queensland. [3] Its tubers provide a form of bush tucker to some Aboriginal peoples, known as bush potato, [4] or (to the Ngururrpa groups in WA), karnti. [5]