National Tater Day -- March 30
[Source: Activity Directory, Toni, St. Mary's Highland Hills Village in Watkinsville, Georgia]
- Potato's roots trace back to Peru where the incas natives were the first to grow the crop.
- Despite its appearance, potato is made up of 80% water and only 20% of solid.
- Potato varieties have grown over the centuries, and there are around 100 of the edible kind.
- You may have potatoes boiled, baked, or fried, but it can also be use in brewing drinks, fixing stuff, and even as medicine.
- Potato is rich in nutrients that enable it to supply all the food elements necessary for the nutrition of the human body.
- Potato is second to milk as the most consumed food in the United States.
- The world saw the largest potato ever grown in 2010 when farmer Peter Glazebrook showed the 8lb 4oz wonder from the Hallam back garden in Nottinghamshire.
- Another one for the record, potato is the first-ever vegetable grown in space when it was taken with the space shuttle Columbia in 1995.
- Potato might be a vegetable, but it beats orange in having more vitamin C, banana with more potassium, and apple with more fiber content.
- King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette popularized potatoes in France after they received a boquet of potato flowers and the latter wearing them on her hair.
[Source: Activity Directory, Toni, St. Mary's Highland Hills Village in Watkinsville, Georgia]