1, each person eats 0.25 kg of fresh potatoes every day, which can generate more than 100 kilocalories, and after eating, they have a good feeling of fullness, so potatoes are very resistant to hunger, and potatoes have no abnormal taste, so they can be used as staple food.

2. Inorganic salts in tubers, such as calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, sodium, zinc and manganese, are also indispensable elements for human health and children's development.

3. Potato has the most complete vitamin content among all food crops, which is twice as high as carrots, three times as high as Chinese cabbage and four times as high as tomatoes, and the B vitamins are four times as high as apples.

4. Potato tubers are rich in water, low in fat and low in calories per unit volume. They contain about four times as much vitamin C as apples, four times as much B vitamins, and several times to dozens of times as many minerals as apples. Potatoes are blood pressure-lowering foods, and some nutrients in the diet can cause diseases. By the same token, if you adjust your diet, you can "eat" the corresponding diseases.

5, potatoes have anti-aging effect. It is rich in B vitamins such as vitamin B 1, B2, B6 and pantothenic acid, and a large amount of high-quality cellulose, as well as trace elements, amino acids, protein, fat and high-quality starch.

6. Potato is a carbohydrate, but its content is only about 1/4 of that of rice with the same weight. Studies show that the starch in potato is a kind of resistant starch, which can shrink fat cells.

Potato (scientific name: Solanum

Tuberosum), a perennial herb of Solanaceae, is the fourth most important food crop in the world, second only to wheat, rice and corn. Potatoes are also called eggs and potatoes.

, potato, etc., tuber of Solanaceae. Together with wheat, rice, corn and sorghum, it has become the five major crops in the world.