• Potato is a starchy root vegetable of Central American origin. This humble tuber is one of the most widely grown root crops and one of the cheapest staple food ingredients consumed all over the world./li>
• Botanically, it belongs to perennial subspecies of Solanum tuberosum in the Solanaceae family.
• Potato plant grows about 12 to 18 inches in height and bears many tubers underground.
• he tubers usually have round to oval to oblong shapes but vary widely in size. Internally, its flesh features cream-white, rose red, or russet color
• depending upon the variety with a moist, crunchy texture and once baked, becomes soft and has a unique buttery "potato" flavor.

Potatoes may contain toxic alkaloids, solanine, and chaconine. These alkaloids present in the greatest concentrations just underneath the skin and may increase proportionately with age.

Sunlight also causes green-discoloration and thus displaying areas of the tuber that may have more toxins.

Some varieties may contain greater solanine alkaloid concentrations than others. Cooking at high temperatures (over 170 °C) somewhat destroys these toxic substances.

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