Potatoes

The potato is a root vegetable native to the Americans a starchy tuber of the plant solanum tubersum,and the plant itself. Wild potato species can be found throughout the Americas,  from the United states to southern Chile. Today there are a staple food in many parts of the world’s food supply. Potato were the world’s fourth largest food crop after maize,wheat and rice . The vegetative and fruiting parts of the potato contain the toxin salanine and are not fit for human consumption.