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Restaurants such as McDonald's use russet potatoes for their size, which produce long pieces suitable for french fries. As of 2009, "McDonald's top tuber is the Russet Burbank". [5] The russet Burbank is more expensive than other potatoes, as it consumes more water and takes longer to mature, while it also requires large amounts of pesticides ...
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."
Alturas is a russet potato variety released in 2002 by the USDA-ARS and the Agricultural Experiment Stations of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington and it is under plant variety protection. [1] It is a processing potato that has cold-sweetening resistance, so it can be processed directly out of storage into French fries and other frozen potato products.
Rainier Russet is a russet potato cultivar released in 2020. [1] It was developed at the Small Grains and Potato Germplasm Research Center in Aberdeen , Washington. The breeding parents of Rainier are Canela Russet and an Aberdeen breeding clone. [ 2 ]
Umatilla Russet (/ ˌ juː m ə ˈ t ɪ l ə /, YOO-mə-TIL-ə) is a moderately late maturing variety of potato especially suitable for frozen french fries processing. [1] It was jointly released by the Agricultural Experiment Station of Oregon , Idaho , and Washington and the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1998. [ 2 ] '
The Ranger Russet is a late-maturing potato that is used for baking and processing into fries. [1] It was originally bred by Joseph J. Pavek of the USDA in Aberdeen, Idaho, [2] and released jointly by the USDA and the agricultural stations of Idaho, Washington, Oregon and Colorado in 1991. Ranger Russet is not under plant variety protection. [2]
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.
The mascot, King Russet, is a Russet Burbank potato (the variety most commonly grown in the area) with a scepter and crown. [5] The approximately 600 students, called Russets, receive two weeks of break in late September because some of them work in the local potato harvest. [6] The school has done well academically.