1. Each person eats 0.25 kg of fresh potatoes every day, which can generate more than 100 kilocalories, and after eating, they feel full, so potatoes are very hungry, and they have no unusual 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 in all food crops, which is twice that of carrot, three times that of Chinese cabbage, four times that of tomato and four times that of apple.

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 to dozens times as much minerals as apples. Potatoes are foods that lower blood pressure, 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, pantothenic acid, and a lot of high-quality cellulose, as well as trace elements, amino acids, protein, fat and high-quality starch.

6. Potato is a kind of carbohydrate, but its content is only about 1/4 of the same weight of rice. Studies have shown 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 largest food crop in the world, second only to wheat, rice and corn. Potatoes are also called egg potatoes.

, potatoes, etc. Tubers of solanaceae plants. Together with wheat, rice, corn and sorghum, it has become the five major crops in the world.