Do you know about potatoes?

Nickname

Potatoes belong to the Solanaceae family, which is a kind of herbaceous plant with tubers for consumption. Potatoes are the fourth most important food crops in the world.

 Potatoes also have other names, which are yam egg, ground egg, and so on. And in different countries, potatoes have different names. For example, the United States calls it Irish bean potato, Russia calls it Dutch potato, France calls it apples, Germany calls it ground pears, and Italy calls it grounds beans and so on. China is the country with the largest total potato production.

Variety classification 

Colored potatoes include purple, red, black, yellow potatoes, and colorful potatoes. China has cultivated purple and red colored high-quality potatoes. Crossed old purple-red potato with excellent and high-yield potato varieties, people have selected more than 100 colored high-quality potatoes of different strains. Compared with the old varieties, the improved colored potato sprouts have small eyes, good appearance, and strong disease resistance. The acre yield of the potatoes can reach 1000~1500kg. Colored potatoes can also be developed as special food. Because its own ingredients contain antioxidant ingredients, it can still maintain its natural color after high-temperature frying. Purple potatoes are not inspired by light, so that fried potato chips can maintain their original color for a long time. The black potatoes contain a lot of anthocyanins, and anthocyanins contain anti-aging effects. At the same time, it also has the characteristics of the developed main pole, few branches, strong growth force, and strong disease resistance, etc. Besides, it can produce green food, because of the improvement of the disease resistance.

Nutritional value

Potatoes have complete nutrition and reasonable structure, especially the protein molecular structure is basically the same as the human body. It is easily absorbed by the human body, and its absorption utilization rate is as high as 100%.  Some nutritionists have pointed out that people eat potatoes and drink whole milk can get all the nutrients in every meal. it can be said that potatoes have all nutritions that the human body needs.

Potatoes can help us to lose weight?

Potatoes are the only food that has lots of vitamins and minerals in all dietary fiber food. per 148 grams of potatoes only have 100 calories.

and the true starch content is less than 2%, containing only 0.1% Fat.

It can effectively control the intake of total fat in people's daily life.