Potato Patch

Potatoes come in all shapes and sizes. They come in colors ranging from white to pink, red to purple and yellow to orange looking flowers. The younger potatoes or called new potatoes they are harvest in the spring. In the fall the older potatoes are called a mature potato.

The shape of a potatoes changes form depending on what restaurant you visit.
You can order them bake in foil, curled with hearty seasonings, long or short salted in a bag. Mashed with gravy, cold as potato salad, instant with butter.

A potato can put you in the mood, with it ingredients of vitamin B6. Vitamin B6 is needed to boost serotonio, the natural brain chemical that makes you feel so happy. It is pack and bruising with more potassium than bananas. It has vitamin C to help heal those little shaving cuts.

The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial. The word potato may refer to the plant itself as well as the edible tuber.
The plant cells of the root of potato plant contains starch grains leucoplast. To extract the starch, the potatoes are crushed, the starch grains are released from the destroyed cells. Then it is then washed out and dried to powder.


The starch derivatives are used in many recipes, for example in noodle and wine gum, cocktail nuts, chips, hot dog sausages, bakery cream, instant soups. It is also occasionally used in the preparation of pre-packed grated cheese, to reduce the cheese sweating and binding.

Potatoes might be your best friends (second only to chocolate). One medium baked potato delivers 24 grams of pure carbohydrate, known to soothe jangled nerves and elevate mood. But all carbohydrates are not created equal. Some get digested and stashed faster than others. Potatoes lead the pack in the race for reenergize the energy that you burn up.