- 01Potato is a vegetable.
- 02Potato’s roots trace back to Peru where the Incas natives were the first to grow the crop.
- 03Despite its appearance, potato is made up of 80% water and only 20% of solid.
- 04Potato varieties have grown over the centuries, and there are around 100 of the edible kind.
- 05Potato is also known as a spud.
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Potatoes came from the Andes.
The vegetable’s existence is quite old age as its domestication dates approximately between 8000 and 5000 BC in Peru or Bolivia, known as the Andes back then. Still, its earliest verified tuber was found in 2500 BC at the Ancon coastal site and the Incas cultivated it as early as 1800 years ago.
Potato comes from the Spanish word “Patata”.
Semantically speaking, the potato has a rather Spanish origin. It came from the Spanish word ‘patata’ in the 1950s, which then stemmed from the Caribbean language ‘batata’ or “sweet potato”. Today, the word comes by other slang terms such as spud, tater, and tattie.