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Contact SupplierPotato (Solanum tuberosum L.) popularly known as ‘The king of vegetables’, has emerged as fourth most important food crop in India after rice, wheat and maize. Indian vegetable basket is incomplete without Potato. Because, the dry matter, edible energy and edible protein content of potato makes it nutritionally superior vegetable as well as staple food not only in our country but also throughout the world. Now, it becomes as an essential part of breakfast, lunch and dinner worldwide. Being a short duration crop, it produces more quantity of dry matter, edible energy and edible protein in lesser duration of time than cereals like rice and wheat. Hence, potato may prove to be a useful tool to achieve the nutritional security of the nation.It is believed that potato was a native of Andes in South America and gradually spread throughout the world.
Indian potato preferred world wise for its taste and meets the international quality standards in terms of disease freeness, shape, size, skin color, flesh and dry matter content. It has been revealed that, according to FAO, a potato is consumed by more than one billion people the world over. It is a high-quality vegetable cum food crop and used in preparing more than 100 types of receivers in India. The popular Indian recipes like Samosas and Alu Paranthas are prepared from potato. The protein of potato has high biological value than proteins of cereals and even better than that of milk. The biological value of the mixture of egg and potato is higher than the egg alone. Hence, a potato can be a supplement to meat and milk products for improving their taste, lowering energy intake and reducing food cost. Nutritional point of view, a potato is a wholesome food and deserves to be promoted as a potentially high-quality vegetable cum food crop in the country.
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Apart from being used as a food source, potatoes have an important role to play in skincare as well. As pointed out earlier, they are rich in vitamin C which is vital for maintaining skin health. Thus, this starchy vegetable is beneficial for your skin in the following ways.
1. Removal of Dark Circles:Potatoes are a natural under eye brightener and so, applying potato juice or potatoes directly on the affected area can banish dark eye rings.
Potato is considered as an effective anti-aging beauty agent, particularly in warding off wrinkles.
Potatoes are a natural way of fading away those dark spots.
Facial blemishes adversely affect your appearance and potato juice is a great natural way to get rid of them.
Potatoes are wonderful for treating sunburnt skin.
Potatoes are a natural skin lightening agent.
If you have dry skin, potatoes will help give you that smooth skin feeling in minutes.