Potato is native South America. It is a root vegetable which is muddy in color. The height of the potato is 40 inches. Potato grows with tuber. The tuber will be below the surface of the soil. A potato plant can produce 20 tubers, but all tubers cannot survive due to lack of compatibility in the weather. Most of the people love to consume potato especially women. Potatoes can be fried, backed, mashed, salads etc. In earlier days, in India at government schools they used to distribute potatoes to student so they used to called dumpala badi. Potato is very easy to cook. It contains vitamin c, vitamin b, proteins, and fiber. Never store potatoes in refrigerators. The potatoes are fresh if they are stored openly. Sweet potato is completely different from normal potato.It is easy to digest. It creates instant energy.

Potatoes are grown in many countries and there are different types of potatoes.

1. Yellow flesh (Canada)

2. Russet skin (America)

3. Red skin (Netherlands)

4. White skin (uk)

Uses of potato:

1. Potato acts as an anti ageing. By applying potato juice to face daily will reduce wrinkles and make your face glow.

 2. For relieving skin burn pains potato paste is helpful.

 3. By rubbing potato juice on skull give relief from headache.

 4. You relax your eyes from tiredness by placing 2 slices of potato on them.

5. Potato is used to remove any sticky thing like glue on skin.

 6. Potato prevents acids action in our stomach which disturbs our sleep. So if we have boiled smashed potato with milk before we sleep, then we can have a peaceful sleep.

 7. Potato can be use a polish for silverware.

8. Boil potato in water and remove potatoes. Then place the silverware in the potato water, so that silver will glaze.

 9.While preparing curry if there is more salt in the curry, then add potatoes and cook them on stove for 5 to 10 minutes. After that remove potatoes. The taste of the curry will be good. Here potato absorbs salt.

 10.We can clean glass doors with potato.

 11.The starch of potato is used in food industry.

 12.We can remove rust on knives by dipping raw potato in brick dust and cleaning the knives with it.

 13.Clean a carpet by rubbing with grate raw potato and clean it with warm water.

 14.The potato flour is used in biscuit making.

 15.Potato is used as animal fodder also.

 Some of the potato items which we can prepare are Alu curry, Potato fry, potato kurma, spicy potato, alu dum, alu parota, potato masala curry, dry potato curry,mashed potato curry,aachar aloo,aloo bhaja, aloo bonda, aloo chana chat, aloo kachori, aloo gobhi masala, aluki puri, aloo keema and many more can be cooked.

we call potato in different way in different languages:

potato - English

Alu - Hindi

Bangaladhumpa - Telugu

Potato is the best vegetable we can cook in a very easy manner. In calcutta, most of the hotels use potato in both vegetable and non vegetable curries

Some of the disadvantages of potato:

1. There are very less mills to make potato flour.

2. Potato consuming with sugar may cause diabetes and obesity.

3. When ever the potato is fried the nutritional content will be lost.

4. Gaining weight.

5. high caloried food.