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What's a potato?

The mouse said to Mustang, "I was dating a cat yesterday!" (Play a food) Mustang didn't believe him and picked up the mouse. (Type a vegetable) It's a potato.

Potato belongs to the Solanaceae family, annual herbaceous plants, tubers are edible, is the world's fourth most important food crops, second only to wheat, rice and corn. Potato is also known as yams, yams, yams, taro, yams, yams, yams, yams, yams, yams, eggs, potatoes and so on.

In some southern provinces, it is also called "winter potato", because it is often planted in winter after the fall rice harvest. Potato in different countries, the name of the title is not the same, such as the United States called Irish potatoes, Russia called Dutch potatoes, France called the ground apple, Germany called the ground pear, Italy called the ground beans, Peru called Baba and so on. With wheat, rice, corn, sorghum and known as the world's five crops.

Potato tubers contain a lot of starch, can provide the body with rich calories, and rich in protein, amino acids and a variety of vitamins, minerals, especially its vitamin content is the most complete of all food crops, in Europe and the United States, especially in North America, potatoes have long been the second staple food.

The potato is native to the Andean region of South America, and the history of artificial cultivation can be traced back to about 8,000 to 5,000 years B.C. in southern Peru. The main potato producing countries China, Russia, India, Ukraine, the United States and so on. China is the world's largest potato production countries.