QUIZ: Are You Really Into Potatoes?

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October 5, 2022

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There is such an unexpected variety in the world of potatoes. Thousands of cultivars belong to Solanum tuberosum, the main species, belonging to a family of 7 or 8 other potato species, and the one that conquered the entire world. Virtually everyone on the planet eats varieties of tuberosum. But how much do you know about our everyday spuds? Give this quiz a try.

Results

#1. Recently, cultivated potato’s (single) origin has been demonstrated. Where exactly in Latin America is it?

southern Peru

northern Bolivia

northern Peru and Ecuador

#2. Some varieties of potatoes in the Andes are toxic, therefore the locals eat them by dunking in a gravy based on...

chili

clay

sweet potato leaves

#3. Have you any ideea what "chuño" is?

Yep, it’s a Peruvian salad made of sweet corn, potatoes, and red beans, that is consumed especially in the middle of the country on the eve of "Papa Chuña" (The Great Feast of God Potato).

Of course, it was a sacred food that used to be served all over the Inca Empire on the Winter Solstice. We know today that it had no meat and it probably is a forerunner of some of the vegetable stews of today.

Oh yeah, it is a traditional Peruvian specialty and an old way of conserving the tubers. It consists of frozen and dehydrated potatoes and traditionally the process takes place up in the mountains in the open.

#4. In the 1840s Ireland was struck by the Irish Potato Famine which caused a dramatic increase in emigration from Ireland to America. Back then the potato crops were destroyed by the...

potato blight

potato phylloxera

potato flu

#5. The multinational fast-food chain McDonald's favors this potato cultivar:

Russet Burbank

Jersey Peach Blow

Yukon Gold

#6. If we were to classify the potatoes by their main color we would get...

4 types: yellow, red, white, and violet/purple

3 types: red, yellow, and blue

n types: no one knows the exact number of types by their color. That’s because there is a huge diversity, one that covers the entire color palette

#7. „New potatoes” are...

various potato cultivars that have been created fairly recently by hybridisation

immature potatoes with very thin loose skin. Virtually any potato cultivar gets to be at some point a new potato.

potato cultivars whose main trăit is the loose thin skin. They are always picked at fully maturity (Formosa, Pink Belle, Thin Russet 3 sau Mayflower III)

#8. And now How to Plant Potatoes 101:

one picks the sprouts off the potatoes and carefully plants them în the ground

one sows the potato seeds by grouping them in small clusters

one places the seed potatoes apart from one another in trenches or in individual holes and covers them with soil

#9. And do you know how potatoes get harvested?

one picks them carefully from the plant’s lower branches în a manner similar to tomatoes, which by the way belong to the same family (Solanaceae).

one harvests potatoes by digging them up and then letting them in the sun for a while to dry.

in the same manner used with the watermelons and pumpkins. One picks them from the ground after cutting them from the vine.

#10. A typical potato is rich în carbs, vitamin C, B6, and Potassium to name a few. Besides, the purple ones are up to 10 times richer then the others în anthocyanins, which are...

saturated fats that can be found in the red meat

unsaturated fats that can be found in the salmon meat

antioxidants that occur in wine, red grapes, and any other fruit or vegetable that’s purple, blue or red

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About The Author

Andrei Gusty

Well, I love to eat! I guess I always did. Tasty foods, traditional foods, fast-foods, healthy foods, and, again, not so healthy ones. You name it. However, in time I kind of built on this habit and, slowly but surely, I began to turn toward the Mediterranean cuisine and, occasionally, even the Mediterranean diet. I am a curious and inquisitive person. So, pretty soon, I started trying to recreate what I’ve tasted or seen. At first, this proved to be hard work for my better half, as she supervised my new experiments. But lately, the results really started to show, so wish me luck!