Potatoes are the world’s most widely consumed food crop, after only rice, wheat, and maize (corn) in terms of human consumption. Potatoes were first cultivated about 10,000 years ago in South America. Now the cultivation of this versatile tuber has spread all over...
Let’s start with calories! A calorie is a unit to measure energy level found in foods and beverages. In certain regions the energy content of food is calculated based on kilojoules, where one calorie equals 4.184 kJ. To determine the number of calories of a food...
