The humble potato is a staple food for many cultures across the globe. But it may just be an important food for the future of space exploration. experiment A recent experiment has taken place in the ...

Christmas dinner is undoubtedly one of the best features of Christmas day. Essentially a Sunday roast on steroids, the feast sees the family gather for crackers, arguments and alcohol, before sending ...

This past Tuesday, the Agriculture Minister in Peru publicly presented a new purple flesh potato variety with higher than normal concentrations of iron and zinc. The potato is believe to become an im ...

It was widely reported in the media the past couple of months that Italian designers Simone Caronni, Paolo Stefano Gentile and Pietro Gaeli have created an ecological packaging for fries made from re ...

  A soggy pile of potato offcuts might not seem a likely birthplace for a “materials revolution”, but it has already begun – the trimmings and skins from our favourite vegetable could form furni ...

Just because the plant uses them in smaller quantities than macronutrients, doesn’t mean that micronutrients aren’t essential for crop production. What are micronutrients? Micronutrients include zinc ...

An all-potato diet 8 years later Chris Voigt made national and international news when, for two whole months, he ate nothing but potatoes. It’s been eight years since Voigt, the executive director of ...

  The Caribou Russet, a potato variety developed by the University of Maine, is now available in more stores throughout New England. The Caribou Russet first went to market in the fall of 2016 a ...

Potato company HZPC has named Dr. Marie Rasochová (80) as Potato Woman of the Year 2018. Marie Rasochová is a great promotor of potatoes in the Czech Republic. She is well known for promoting potatoe ...

Potatoes are edible tubers, available worldwide and all year long. They are relatively cheap to grow, rich in nutrients, and they can make a delicious treat. The humble potato has fallen in popularit ...