Fresh potato, Type : Vegetable

Priced reasonably and available in the best quality packaging, our range of Fresh Potatoes is primarily known to have longer shelf life. We offer high grade crop, grown from quality seeds and under the most favourable conditions thereby ensuring their nutritional value is preserved for longer. We supply to various types of customers including fast food joints that extensively use potatoes.

Description :

• The potato is a tuber, short, thick, underground stem with stored starches and sugars plant. It was given its botanical name, Solanum tuberosum. Nutritionally, the potato supplies complex carbohydrates—essential for energy—and a very low amount of protein.
• Potatoes are part of group that makes up the third largest source of carbohydrates in the world. Potato plant grows about twelve to eighteen inches in height and bears many tubers underground. The tubers usually have round to oval to oblong shape but vary widely in size. Internally, its flesh features bright cream-white, rose red or russet color depending up on the variety with moist, crunchy texture and once baked, becomes soft and has special buttery "potato" flavor.

Benefits :

• Brain functioning and nervous system health : The B6 vitamins in potatoes are critical to maintaining neurological health. Vitamin B6 helps create useful brain chemicals, including serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine, according to the University of Maryland Medical Center.
• Immunity : Vitamin C can help prevent everything from scurvy to the common cold, and potatoes are full of this nutrient, with about 45 percent of the daily recommended intake per medium baked potato, according to the Washington State Potato Commission.
• Athletic performance : Sodium and potassium, which are found in potato peels, are two important electrolytes, and athletes lose them in sweat." Electrolytes are necessary for optimum body function, and having too few can cause cramps, as many athletes know.