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Potatoes
The potato is a starchy root vegetable that is a common and versatile ingredient in cuisines around the world.
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What happened to Evans Potato Chip company located around 43rd and Halstead?
The company went under in 1981 and a mexican company known for pork rinds bought the name.
they are transported from farms by trucks into factories that they package them in
Where can you cook your jacket potato if you have no oven?
Boil it on the stove and if you dont have one, micro wave it. Ok
Was Ireland the first country in Europe to grow potatoes on a large scale?
Ireland devoted a great deal of land to growing potatoes, but they were not the first European country to grow many potatoes. Spain, Germany, and France all grew large amounts of potatoes with France having 117 million hectares devoted to growing potatoes in 1840.
What is potato in different languages?
Hebrew = tapu'akh adamah (תפוח ×דמה)
Spanish = papa
Yiddish = bulba (בולבע)
Is potato an insulator of heat?
a potato is not an heat insulator because it's skin,but if you take the skin off it will be a heat insulator
What beers are made with out potatoes or dextrose?
Any Beer made according to the German Beer Purity laws (Rheinheitsgebot) is not permitted to contain any ingredient other than Malt, Hops, Yeast, and Water.
So any German Beer which is legal to sell in Germany will contain no starch additives.
There are many other beers which also steer clear of starch stretchers - but you will always be safe with native German brews.
I think it might actually be Air Potato which is in the Yam family. It is from Africa and very invasive in Florida and it does have heart shaped leaves and produce bulbs above ground that fall to the ground and make more vines. See the link below to the University of Florida Extension page.
These are a lovely plant growing on a trellis..They DO have flowers..you just can hardly see them. They are in a cluster like a bunch of grapes, very very tiny, and have an intensely fragrant smell...I love my vine, and try to cut it down before all those "potato seeds" fall to the ground...save some of the larger seeds, and share with a friend. I also have one in a very large pot with a home made trellis. If you do that however, put a large stone in the bottom of the pot..it WILL blow over in the wind.
What is the effect on salt on mass of a potato?
A potato will decrease in mass if salt (sodium chloride) is applied to it. The salt will absorb water which is contained in the potato.
Was the southern colonies agriculturally based with the major crop being potatoes?
Not exactly. Ex. it was mostly cotton during the Civil War .
What was the variety of potato that Irish potato farmers grew during the potato famine?
Lumpers.
... until the crop was affected by blight which destroyed the crops and then there were none. That's why it it ended in the Irish crisis called the potato famine.
What shortage of potato crops caused many people to leave this country and come to America?
Ireland. The Irish Potato Famine began in September 1845. Potatoes, upon which the Irish diet was almost totally based, began to disappear. Due to the abundance of potatoes in America, many Irish people began to migrate to the United States. It is ironic, though, that the disease which originally caused the famine was mistakenly transported from North America to Ireland.
Does cassava store food in their leaves or Irish potato?
no, cassava stores food in the roots while irish potato stores food in the stem
a tradeoff
What event before the Great Potato Famine had significance in Ireland?
in no particular order, the main political events leading up to the famine were 1800 - political union with Britain 1829 catholic emancipation - votes for some catholics etc 1690 - battle of the boyne 1697> the penal laws which deprived catholics and to some extent presbyterians of civil rights - education, inheritance, suffrage, state employment etc the patoto famine is bad and it can kill you!!!!!!!!! =}
A potato is a tuber, a store of energy and a blueprint for the next seasons growth.
When a potato is beginning to grow eyes appear on the skin, if planted it is the eyes that grow into a new plant.
When the potato plant is fully grown it produces more potatoes.
Which Rocky Mountain Potato has a yellow skin and yellow flesh and was develop in Finland?
trick question, none of them
Why can we use potatoes as a food source but not wood?
- the polysaccharides in the potato (i.e. long chain starches) can be broken down by cooking into short chain starches that can be digested by enzymes in the human gut to glucose, which provides nutritional value
- the polysaccharides in in wood (e.g. cellulose, pectin) cannot be broken down by cooking or by enzymes in the human gut, so it provides no nutritional value
