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It's true, potatoes are one of the few singular plants that can provide almost all of a person's nutritional needs with barely any other supplement.
More protein per acre than soy.
A factoid brought to you by the National Potato Council, who told me this once and I've never bothered to fact check it.
Edit: It's a lie! What other lies have lobbing groups told me???
I am going to consider this a success story, given that you were transparent about the provenance of this factoid, and you corrected yourself. Yay for learning!
In fact it’s the most factoid it could be, an outright falsehood shared as a fact.
Yes, I did delight in getting to accurately use the word "factoid"; it's useful for working through the trauma of learning that "factoid" doesn't just mean a neat tidbit of fun facts, but rather quite the opposite. And for a "learning is fun" kind of gal like me, misinformation masked as genuine learning is deeply unfun — that is, unless we make the factoid itself our new object of study.
The system works!
This is about as good of an outcome as any can hope for in a “long” comment chain on the internet.
we did itYeah, the returns really become increasingly marginal the longer a comment chain goes on. ^(I think I'm committed to the bit though)
I hadn't ever thought to look it up over the last 10-12 years! Imagine that.
iirc its more calories/acre than... well lliterally anything else. Not sure about any specific nutrient though.
Corn beats it out, and by some reckonings so does rice. Pumpkins too.
There are a few more exotic plants like tigernut and duckweed that are supposed to be really high, but not many people eat those as a staple crop. Palm oil and sugar cane are supposed to be super high too, though you probably don't want to be eating huge quantities of straight oil and sugar.
Finally there are a few tropical trees like jackfruit and breadfruit that produce enormous quantities of calories once mature. They have a huge advantage from their large leaf crowns and root systems (that they don't have to periodically regrow like annual plants) + the tropical weather allowing production for the entire year.
Cheap, can be made into a variety of dishes, easy to prepare, really a winner allround.