Cornell’s plant breeders and geneticists have played a significant role in the improvement of the potato, having released more than 50 varieties since 1908. Cornell researchers are now expanding thei ...

Idaho is the place for potatoes — its state vegetable is the potato, it’s home to the Idaho Potato Museum and its farmers produce 13 billion pounds of potatoes annually. Perhaps it’s no s ...

Wada Farms uses a bag made partially from potato starch for its Idaho Potatoes that reduces greenhouse gas emissions, the use of petroleum-based plastics, and excess film gauge. Wada Farms, with the ...

If there’s one thing potato plants don’t like, it’s heat. If the temperature is too high, potato plants form significantly lower numbers of tubers or sometimes none at all. Biochemi ...

Potato chips are thin slices of potato that are deeply-fried or baked until crunchy. Potato chips are commonly served as an appetizer, side dish, or snack. But do you know which are the bestselling p ...

Many people can not resist the temptation of world-famous French fries or potato chips. We are well aware of that these nutritious potatoes are suitable for cooking delicious food. However, do you kn ...

At a time when headlines are warning of an “insect apocalypse”, new research in the UK has found potato and vegetable growers are providing a hugely valuable habitat resource and insect species are t ...

  Good news for chip lovers: You can have way more than the six French fries one expert suggests… Last year, Harvard University nutrition professor Eric Rimm told the New York Times he’d like to ...

In an opinion piece written by Peter Kaplinsky and published in The Cornell Daily Sun, the author reflects on how his parents moved their family from the USSR to America many years ago, and in partic ...

  Health professionals universally agree on the importance of a balanced diet, and the fallacy of relying on any one or two food groups, as the means of achieving peak physical performance and h ...