Potatoes and citrus are the principal export crops.

Potatoes, cauliflower, tomatoes, and flowers are important export crops, shipped mostly to the United Kingdom.

Potatoes are occasionally referred to as " Irish potatoes " or " white potatoes " in the United States, to distinguish them from sweet potatoes.

Potatoes are cross-pollinated mostly by insects, including bumblebees, which carry pollen from other potato plants, but a substantial amount of self-fertilizing occurs as well.

Potatoes do not keep very well in storage and are vulnerable to molds that feed on the stored tubers, quickly turning them rotten.

Potatoes are often broadly classified as high on the glycemic index ( GI ) and so are often excluded from the diets of individuals trying to follow a low-GI diet.

Potatoes contain toxic compounds known as glycoalkaloids, of which the most prevalent are solanine and chaconine.

Potatoes grown in a tall bag are common in gardens as they increase potato yield and minimize the amount of digging required at harvest

Potatoes are generally grown from seed potatoes – these are tubers specifically grown to be disease free and provide consistent and healthy plants.

Potatoes are sensitive to heavy frosts, which damage them in the ground.

Potatoes are usually cured after harvest to improve skin-set.

* Potatoes are used to brew alcoholic beverages such as vodka, potcheen, or akvavit.

* Potatoes ( mainly Russets ) are commonly used in plant research.

Potatoes are prepared in many ways: skin-on or peeled, whole or cut up, with seasonings or without.

Potatoes are boiled between 10 and 25 minutes, depending on size and type, to become soft.

Potatoes are also a major ingredient as fast food items, such as aloo chaat, where they are deep fried and served with chutney.

Potatoes are represented anthropomorphically as well as naturally.

Potatoes are often served as a side dish, often boiled.

* Potatoes and beans are cultivated in South America

Potatoes are grown in fields near the coast, using seaweed-based fertiliser, and in addition the region produces pork products, other root vegetables, cattle ( see below ) and summer berries such as strawberries are grown abundantly.

Potatoes form one of the main ingredients in many soups such as the vichyssoise and Albanian potato and cabbage soup.

This was followed by a main dish of Pan-fried Turbot topped with Samphire and served with Vegetable filled Leek Cannelloni, crushed Roast Potatoes and a Beurre Blanc sauce, and a dessert of Ile Flottante-Poached Meringue in Crème Anglaise with Almond Praline Topping and Shortbread Biscuits.

Potatoes provided a stable income source through the great depression, and provided 50 % of the railroad's revenue following World War II.

Potatoes were the largest staple in the Irish diet, so as the price rose it had a large impact on income.

Potatoes and meat are generally considered staple food of Latvians.

There have been many recorded instances during golfing tournaments when a fan has shouted " Mashed Potatoes " after Tiger Woods finishes his shot.

* Potatoes, many varieties of potato are native to the Andes region.

Potatoes, corn, and rye have always been the traditional crops, as well as limited dairy farming.

* Potatoes: Potatoes were considered livestock feed in Europe until French chemist Antoine-Augustin Parmentier began serving dishes made from the tubers at his lavish banquets.

Potatoes, tomatoes, rice tobacco, lettuce, safflowers, and other plants have been genetically engineered to produce insulin and certain vaccines.

The expression " French Fried Potatoes " first occurs in print in English in the 1856 work Cookery for Maids of All Work by E. Warren: " French Fried Potatoes.

" Pommes de terre frites à cru, en petites tranches " (" Potatoes deep-fried while raw, in small cuttings ") in a manuscript in Thomas Jefferson's hand ( circa 1801 – 1809 ) and the recipe almost certainly comes from his French chef, Honoré Julien.

Potatoes entered the German cuisine in the late 18th century, and were almost ubiquitous in the 19th century and since.

Potatoes overtook cider as the most important crop in Jersey in the 1840s.

In early 1960, Brown's band recorded the top ten R & B hit, "( Do the ) Mashed Potatoes " on Dade Records, owned by Henry Stone, under the pseudonym " Nat Kendrick & The Swans " because Brown's label refused to release it.

Potatoes were introduced outside the Andes region four centuries ago, and have become an integral part of much of the world's cuisine.

Potatoes yield abundantly with little effort, and adapt readily to diverse climates as long as the climate is cool and moist enough for the plants to gather sufficient water from the soil to form the starchy tubers.

There are signs that it has struggled for days to escape and that in a frenzy of hunger, pain, and fear, it has all but eaten off its own leg.

In Patagonia, lamb and chivito ( goat ) are eaten more frequently than beef.

Breaded and fried meats — milanesas — are used as snacks, in sandwiches, or eaten warm with mashed potatoes — purée.

Vegetables and salads are also eaten by Argentines ; tomatoes, onions, lettuce, eggplants, squashes, and zucchini are common side dishes.

Italian staples, such as pizza and pasta, are eaten as commonly as beef.

It entails manifold types of meat, which are generally eaten as follows: achuras ( offal, or the cow's inner parts ), morcilla ( blood sausage ,) and sometimes also a provoleta ( a piece of provolone cheese cooked on the grill with oregano ) are eaten first.

Empanadas are individually-sized and closed savoury pastries which may be fried or baked in the oven and are generally eaten with the hands.

Sopa Paraguaya and Chipá Guazu are also commonly eaten.

; picadas are eaten accompanied by an alcoholic beverage (" fernet ", beer, wine with soda, to give some common examples ).

Moreover they argued that some species have been created for the purpose of being sacrificed and eaten by humans, that it is normal for animals to kill and eat other animals, that agriculture, too, inevitably leads to the death of many animals, that plants are living beings as well and must still be destroyed, that we unintentionally and unknowingly destroy life forms all the time, and that a hunted animal has a fair chance to survive by killing the hunter.

If eaten whole, bay leaves are pungent and have a sharp, bitter taste.

In Indonesia bee larvae are eaten as a companion to rice, after being mixed with shredded coconut " meat ", wrapped in banana leaves, and steamed.

Neanderthals are believed to have practiced cannibalism, and Neanderthals may have been eaten by anatomically modern humans.

Calf meat for human consumption is called veal ; also eaten are calf's brains and calf liver.

However, lamb and goat are rarely eaten, unlike in the cuisines of northern or western China.

rapaceum ), depending on whether the petioles ( stalks ) or roots are eaten: celery refers to the former and celeriac to the latter.

Usually only the stalks are eaten.

The stalks are not usually eaten ( except in soups or stews in French cuisine ), but the leaves may be used in salads, and its seeds are those sold as a spice.

Absorption from these foods is enhanced if eaten with fats, as carotenes are fat soluble, and if the food is cooked for a few minutes until the plant cell wall splits and the colour is released into any liquid.