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Maris Piper is the most widely grown potato variety in the United Kingdom accounting for 16% of the planted area in 2014. Introduced in 1966 it was one of the first potato varieties bred to be resistant to a form of potato cyst nematode, a major pest of potato production in the UK.
This is a list of potato varieties or cultivars. Potato cultivars can have a range of colours due to the accumulation of anthocyanins in the tubers . 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 King Edward has a variety of culinary uses and is renowned for its light fluffy texture; for this reason it is particularly suitable for roasting, mashed potato or baking, although it is also suitable for sautéing, steaming, and frying as chips. It has been described by Delia Smith as being the best potato with which to make gnocchi. [5]
Although often quoted as an "Irish potato" (where it was introduced in 1917), the cultivar was actually created by J. Henry of Cornhill, Scotland, in 1907. In 2002, it accounted for 25% of potato production in Ireland, [1] making it the nation's second largest variety. 'Kerr's Pink' potatoes have a distinctive pink colour with deep eyes.
Obviously, foods like tater tots, potato chips and french fries are also made from potatoes, Rizzo says. But the way they're cooked — at high heat while drenched in oil — makes them less ...
The Atlantic potato is a mid-season potato variety for potato chip manufacturing. It was developed and released by USDA Agricultural Research Service scientists at Beltsville, Maryland, in 1978. [1] The variety is not under plant variety protection. [2] It is a progeny of a cross between 'Wauseon' and 'Lenape'. It is widely grown for chipping ...
5. Better Made. Michigan. At one point, Detroit was the potato chip capital of the world, home to over 40 local chip brands.Today, only Better Made has survived, thanks to its crisp, lightly ...
The European Cultivated Potato Database (ECPD) is an online collaborative database of potato variety descriptions. The information that it contains can be searched by variety name, or by selecting one or more required characteristics. 159,848 observations; 29 contributors; 91 characters; 4,119 cultivated varieties; 1,354 breeding lines