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By the 2010s, Russet Burbank accounted for 70% of the ultra-processed potato market in North America, and over 40% of the potato growing area in the US. [1] Restaurants such as McDonald's favor russet potatoes for their size, which produce long pieces suitable for french fries. As of 2009, "McDonald's top tuber is the Russet Burbank."
Some of the potatoes of Chiloé also grow in the wild in Guaitecas Archipelago, although there is some uncertainty as to when and how potatoes arrived there. [12] The Guaitecas Archipelago formed the southern limit of Pre-Hispanic agriculture [13] as noted by the mention of the cultivation of potatoes by a Spanish expedition in 1557. [12]
Potatoes grow in the dark and are fittingly best kept in a similar environment. "Sunlight causes potatoes to start greening. The green is from a chemical called solanine, which can be toxic ...
The plants are large and spreading with angled stems and large light purple flowers. The potatoes are deep-eyed and round with dark red skin and white waxy flesh, [5] though can be knobbly if soil moisture is uneven. [3] The skin colour can fade significantly, leaving only the eyes as red. [4]
It is native to the western United States from California to Montana, where it grows in high mountains in rocky, gravelly habitat. The tuber of Lomatium fusiformis has been traditionally consumed by Native American tribes in the western United States. [2] It is a small perennial herb growing from a carrot-like tuber up to a centimeter wide ...
The Vivaldi potato is field immune to potato wart, and highly resistant to potato viruses A and Y. It is moderately resistant to leaf roll, potato virus X, late blight on tuber, silver scurf, blackleg and black dot, and is moderately susceptible to late blight on leaves, common scab, powdery scab, rhizoctonia and skin spot. [3]
Rooster is a red-skinned, yellow-fleshed cultivar of potato, duller in colour than the 'Désirée', with floury yellow flesh. [1] It is uniformly roundish in shape with shallow eyes making it easy to peel. It is a general-purpose potato. It can be boiled, mashed, chipped, roasted, steamed and baked.
Sagittaria latifolia is a plant found in shallow wetlands and is sometimes known as broadleaf arrowhead, [5] duck-potato, [6] Indian potato, or wapato. This plant produces edible tubers that have traditionally been extensively used by Native Americans .