The document discusses potatoes and potato farming. It provides details about potato production and consumption in the United States and around the world. Some key facts include: the average American consumes about 120 pounds of potatoes per year; Russet Burbank, Round White, and Round Red varieties account for 95% of US potato production; potatoes were first domesticated as a food crop in South America around 10,000 years ago; and potatoes were brought to Europe in the 16th century by Spanish explorers. It also discusses potato processing into products like chips, vodka, and dehydrated potatoes.
The document discusses potatoes and potato farming. It provides details about potato production and consumption in the United States and around the world. Some key facts include: the average American consumes about 120 pounds of potatoes per year; Russet Burbank, Round White, and Round Red varieties account for 95% of US potato production; potatoes were first domesticated as a food crop in South America around 10,000 years ago; and potatoes were brought to Europe in the 16th century by Spanish explorers. It also discusses potato processing into products like chips, vodka, and dehydrated potatoes.
The document discusses potatoes and potato farming. It provides details about potato production and consumption in the United States and around the world. Some key facts include: the average American consumes about 120 pounds of potatoes per year; Russet Burbank, Round White, and Round Red varieties account for 95% of US potato production; potatoes were first domesticated as a food crop in South America around 10,000 years ago; and potatoes were brought to Europe in the 16th century by Spanish explorers. It also discusses potato processing into products like chips, vodka, and dehydrated potatoes.
The document discusses potatoes and potato farming. It provides details about potato production and consumption in the United States and around the world. Some key facts include: the average American consumes about 120 pounds of potatoes per year; Russet Burbank, Round White, and Round Red varieties account for 95% of US potato production; potatoes were first domesticated as a food crop in South America around 10,000 years ago; and potatoes were brought to Europe in the 16th century by Spanish explorers. It also discusses potato processing into products like chips, vodka, and dehydrated potatoes.
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Name ___________________
Date ____________________
Modern Marvels – Potatoes
1. The original Pantry Diner was opened in ___________________________.
2. The potatoes at the Pantry Diner are cooked by _______________________________, not boiling. 3. The diner uses about _____________________ pounds of potatoes a day. 4. The average American consumes about _____________________ pounds of potatoes a year. 5. _____________________ ranks number one in potato consumption, ____________________ is number 2, and ____________________________________ is number five. 6. Name any of the varieties of chips made by Kettle Foods. 7. Unlike a lot of chip manufacturers, Kettle Foods doesn’t _____________________ the potatoes before cooking. 8. How many flavors of chips do they make? ________________________________ 9. ______________ % of all US potatoes are Russet Burbank, Round White, and Round Red. 10. Potatoes were first grown as a food crop in the ___________________ about ______________ years ago. 11. Potatoes were brought to Europe in the _________ century by the ___________________________. 12. By the __________ century, the potato became a staple of the European diet. 13. Knish is a food made of cooked potatoes wrapped in _________________________ with spices and _______________________ added. 14. Weiser Farms started growing potatoes about _____________________ years ago. 15. About _________________________________ of cropland is devoted to growing potatoes. 16. About __________________________________ tons of potatoes are harvested each year. 17. What two states dominated the potato market in the US? 18. Sterman Masser Farms harvests about ___________________________ of potatoes per acre per year. 19. A truckload of potatoes weighs about ______________________________ pounds. 20. The potato is a botanical relative of the _____________________ and _______________________________. 21. Potato ________________________ are poisonous to humans. 22. The part of the potato you eat is actually a _________________________. 23. The child aged pickers were paid ____________________ a barrel to pick up potatoes. 24. The use of GPS in farming equipment has resulted in a gain of about ___________% of production area. 25. The cull potatoes are used to make __________________________. 26. The Cold River production facility started out using about ____________________ pounds of potatoes a year. 27. They use ______________________________ pounds of potatoes a year now. 28. Cold River uses about ______________________ pounds of potatoes to make one bottle of vodka. 29. The vodka is made from potatoes because the sugar in the potatoes and east makes _______________. 30. The ethanol made from potato alcohol is about ___________________% pure alcohol. 31. Potato ethanol plus water makes ____________________________. 32. The average American eats __________________ servings of french fries a week. 33. At Ore Ida, the 1 acre underground storage cellar can hold about __________________________ pounds of fresh potatoes, or enough to last the plant 10 days. 34. Tator tots were developed to make use of _____________________________________________. 35. The tator tots are frozen as ______________________________ degrees. 36. The variety of potato that is purple is the ___________________________________________, 37. Wood Prairie Farms grows ____________________ different varieties of organic potatoes. 38. The variety of pink potato is the ______________________________________. 39. Late blight is an ______________________________________ that attacks potatoes and destroys about _______% of the world potato crop each year. 40. It takes about ______________________ pounds of potatoes to make 50 pounds of potato flakes. 41. Dehydrated potatoes are used in foods such as ______________________ and _________________. 42. The Keystone processing plant goes through about ________________ pounds of potatoes a day. 43. The potatoes are dried and taken from about ______% moisture when raw to about ______% moisture when dried. 44. As early as ______________, South Americans were drying potatoes to keep them. 45. Project Concern transports about _______________________ pounds of dehydrated potatoes. 46. The first child’s toy advertised on television was _______________________________. 47. When this toy was first released, you had to use a _________________________________. 48. The Diktator is a version of the ever popular ______________________________________. 49. Agrihouse is experimenting with growing food _________________________________________. 50. In 1995, the first food crop grown in orbit was the ____________________________. 51. Aeroponics is growing plants in the air with ______________________________ instead of in soil. This uses _______% less fertilizer and ______% less water.