Spud Rumble
Don't Wash Your Potatoes

1) While some people have the wrong idea that potatoes are not healthy and do no good to the human body... the exact opposite is true.

2) Aside from celebrating National Potato Day (or days) every August 19 and October 27, the United Nations even declared 2008 as the official Year of the Potato.

3) The Tomtato is the product of a grafted potato plant and tomato plant. This efficient strategy could grow both potatoes and tomatoes, and there is little to no effect on the quality.

4) Since its space pioneer feat, the potato became a vital part of the spud rumble goal to feed space voyagers on long expeditions and future space colonies in the future. It's not yet fit enough for the role.

5) The potato also comes in a unique blue-violet color. The vitelotte noire, or simply vitolette, is a gourmet French potato variety which dates its cultivation in France at least since the early 19th century.

6) You can find words and illustrations of potato in Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, Van Gogh’s Potato Eaters, and James Joyce’s Ulysses.

7) French Queen Marie Antoinette gave birth to potato in fashion inspired by the bouquet of potato she received. The flower instantly became trendy once she made a public appearance with it as decorations to her clothing.

8) Potatoes are the fourth most produced crop, the most consumed food in countries, and is even the first vegetable that was ever grown in space.

9) The average American potato consumption is at 140 pounds of potatoes per year, while the Germans consume more than 200 pounds of potatoes per year.

10) Scientists have said you could live off spud rumble potatoes. Just pair it with a fair serving of milk or butter, and you’re good to go with almost all the nutrients that a human body needs.

11) Common commercial potatoes are just a few of the 5,000 known varieties available. What’s even more amazing is that they could grow from sea level up to 15,420 feet above the sea.

12) You shouldn’t wash your potatoes prior to storing as it would only speed up your supply’s decay. Save the washing part to right before you cook it.

13) It’s best to boil, steam or bake potatoes in their skins, as their nutrients lie very close to these parts. Peeling them before cooking could cause the loss of these nutrients.

14) Dry, dark places are the perfect storage setting for potato. When kept at 45-50 degrees Fahrenheit, they could even last up to three months.

15) One could suffer from potato poisoning by consuming potato leaves and green stems. These parts contain toxic solanine which could cause potato plant poisoning.

16) Once you see potatoes are starting to shrivel, it means that they have lost a great bit of their nutrients. In other words, they're not spud rumble palatable anymore.

17) Despite the new sprout coming, potatoes are still safe to eat as long as they are still firm to the touch. Just remove the sprouts and go on with your recipe.

18) There was a time when potatoes were traded with gold. In the 1890s, the Alaskan Klondlike gold rush potato had very high value due to its essential Vitamin C content.

19) Given its many nutritional contents, it is best to eat potatoes for breakfast as they could well provide all the minerals you need to keep you healthy throughout the day.

20) Not just good to chew, potatoes are good to drink as well. They could also be used to brew certain types of alcoholic beverages like Vodka, Akvavit, or the spud rumble Poitín.

21) Meals all over the world are already blessed with the individual wonders of potatoes when boiled, baked, fried, mashed, or when made into soup and even into chips.

22) Potatoes are known to be good for the stomach, spleen, and intestines. They could also boost heart health, improve digestion, strengthen the immune system and maintain fluid balance.

23) A medium-sized potato contains 110 calories. Now, compare that to the 225 calories of one-cup rice and the 115 calories of one-cup pasta.

24) Potato a.k.a. near-perfect food is 99.9% fat-free and contains vitamins B6, C, E, K, and minerals like potassium, magnesium and phosphorous.

25) The common potato is just one of the many varieties of the tuber crop. Other known types are the Russet Burbank, Pontiac (with the thin red skin), Pink Eye (Spud Rumble Pink Eye), Kipfler, Spunta and Pink Fir Apple.

26) The potato plant is part of the Solanaceae, or the nightshade family. Their starchy edible tubers are the main reason why they are widely grown, produced and consumed.

27) The potato won’t be complete without a potato museum. It seemed fitting for a group of locals to feature the significance of potatoes in their economy. Hence, the display of the renowned potato tribute since 1913.

28) Idaho might be a late bloomer in the potato growing part, but it still became known as the potato state for an amazing reason. They only started growing potatoes in 1836

29) China is the world’s largest potato producer and exporter, while the countries India, Germany, Ukraine, Russia, Poland, and the United States are leading producers as well.

30) The Potato has a Spanish origin. It came from the Spanish word patata in the 1950s, which then stemmed from the Caribbean batata. Today, the word comes by other spud rumble terms such as spud, tater, and tattie.