The Glorious Potato - Saving the World
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As wheat and rice prices surge, the humble potato -- long derided as a boring tuber prone to making you fat -- is being rediscovered as a nutritious crop that could cheaply feed an increasingly hungry world...it comes in more than 5,000 varieties...
...Potatoes, which are native to Peru, can be grown at almost any elevation or climate: from the barren, frigid slopes of the Andes Mountains to the tropical flatlands of Asia. They require very little water, mature in as little as 50 days, and can yield between two and four times more food per hectare than wheat or rice...
...the United Nations named 2008 the International Year of the Potato, calling the vegetable a "hidden treasure"...
...a great source of complex carbohydrates...and have only 5% percent of the fat content of wheat...
...one-fourth of the calories of bread and...more protein than corn and nearly twice the calcium...they contain vitamin C, iron, potassium and zinc...
...Potatoes, which are native to Peru, can be grown at almost any elevation or climate: from the barren, frigid slopes of the Andes Mountains to the tropical flatlands of Asia. They require very little water, mature in as little as 50 days, and can yield between two and four times more food per hectare than wheat or rice...
...the United Nations named 2008 the International Year of the Potato, calling the vegetable a "hidden treasure"...
...a great source of complex carbohydrates...and have only 5% percent of the fat content of wheat...
...one-fourth of the calories of bread and...more protein than corn and nearly twice the calcium...they contain vitamin C, iron, potassium and zinc...
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