Editing Potato (section)

== Uses ==

=== Culinary ===

{{See also |List of potato dishes |Potato cooking}}

[[List of potato dishes |Potato dishes ]] vary around the world. [[Peruvian cuisine]] naturally contains the potato as a primary ingredient in many dishes, as around 3,000 varieties of the tuber are grown there.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/24/AR2007062400727.html |title=''Peru Celebrates Potato Diversity'' |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date= 24 June 2007 |access-date=16 July 2010 |first=Monte |last=Hayes}}</ref> [[Chuño]] is a [[freeze-drying |freeze-dried]] potato product traditionally made by [[Quechuas |Quechua]] and [[Aymara people |Aymara]] communities of [[Peru]] and [[Bolivia]].<ref>Timothy Johns: With bitter Herbs They Shall Eat it : Chemical ecology and the origins of human diet and medicine, The University of Arizona Press, Tucson 1990, {{ISBN |0-8165-1023-7}}, pp. 82–84</ref> In the UK, potatoes form part of the traditional dish [[fish and chips]]. Roast potatoes are commonly served as part of a [[Sunday roast |Sunday roast dinner]] and mashed potatoes form a major component of several other traditional dishes, such as [[shepherd's pie]], [[bubble and squeak]], and [[bangers and mash]]. New potatoes may be cooked with [[mentha |mint]] and are often served with butter. In Germany, [[Northern Europe]] (Finland, Latvia and especially [[Scandinavia |Scandinavian countries]]), Eastern Europe (Russia, [[Belarus]] and [[Ukraine]]) and Poland, newly harvested, early ripening varieties are considered a special delicacy. Boiled whole and served un-peeled with [[dill]], these "new potatoes" are traditionally consumed with [[pickled herring |Baltic herring]]. Puddings made from grated potatoes ([[kugel]], [[kugelis]], and [[potato babka]]) are popular items of [[Ashkenazi cuisine |Ashkenazi]], [[Lithuanian cuisine |Lithuanian]], and [[Belarusian cuisine |Belarusian]] cuisine.<ref name="Bremzen90">{{cite book |author1=von Bremzen, Anya |author2=Welchman, John |title=Please to the Table: The Russian Cookbook |publisher=Workman Publishing |location=New York |year=1990 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/pleasetotablethe00vonb/page/319 319–20] |isbn=978-0-89480-845-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/pleasetotablethe00vonb/page/319}}</ref> [[Cepelinai]], the national dish of [[Lithuania]], are [[dumpling]]s made from boiled grated potatoes, usually stuffed with [[Ground meat |minced meat]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.delac.eu/stories/40?back= |title=D.E.L.A.C. |work=delac.eu |access-date=25 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305044428/http://www.delac.eu/stories/40?back= |archive-date=5 March 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In Italy, in the [[Friuli]] region, potatoes serve to make a type of pasta called [[gnocchi]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Roden |first=Claudia |title=The Food of Italy |publisher=Arrow Books |location=London |year=1990 |page=72 |isbn=978-0-09-976220-1}}</ref> Potato is used in northern China where rice is not easily grown, a popular dish being {{lang |zh-Hans |青椒土豆丝}} (''qīng jiāo tǔ dòu sī''), made with green pepper, vinegar and thin slices of potato. In the winter, roadside sellers in northern China sell roasted potatoes.<ref name=Solomon>{{cite book |last=Solomon |first=Charmaine |title=Charmaine Solomon's Encyclopedia of Asian Food |year=1996 |publisher=William Heinemann Australia |location=Melbourne |isbn=978-0-85561-688-5 |page=293}}</ref>

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File:Flickr - cyclonebill - Pommes frites med salatmayonnaise.jpg |''Pommes frites'', also called chips and [[French fries]]
File:Peru PapasRellenas2.jpg |[[Papa rellena]] 
File:Baked Potato (3662019664).jpg |Baked potato with sour cream and chives
File:Bauernfrühstück-01.jpg |German {{lang|de|[[Bauernfrühstück]]}} ("farmer's breakfast")
File:Cepelinai 2, Vilnius, Lithuania - Diliff.jpg |[[Cepelinai]]
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=== Other uses ===

Potatoes are sometimes used to brew alcoholic spirits such as [[vodka]], [[poitín]], [[akvavit]], and [[brännvin]].<ref name=ermochkine>Ermochkine, Nicholas and Iglikowski, Peter (2003). ''40 degrees east : an anatomy of vodka'', Nova Publishers, p. 65, {{ISBN |1-59033-594-5}}.</ref><ref>[https://runeberg.org/nfbd/0233.html Brännvinsbränning] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130621032823/http://runeberg.org/nfbd/0233.html |date=21 June 2013 }} in ''[[Nordisk familjebok]]'', volume 4 (1905)</ref>

Potatoes are used as [[fodder]] for livestock. They may be made into [[silage]] which can be stored for some months before use.<ref name="Halliday_2015">{{cite web |last=Halliday |first=Les |display-authors=etal |title=Ensiling Potatoes |work=Prince Edward Island Agriculture and Fisheries |date=2015 |url=http://www.gov.pe.ca/photos/original/af_fact_ensipot.pdf |access-date=27 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Schroeder |first=Ken |date=October 2012 |title=Feeding Cull Potatoes to Dairy and Beef Cattle |url=https://fyi.extension.wisc.edu/wbic/files/2012/10/Feeding-Cull-Potatoes-to-Dairy-and-Beef-Cattle-10-24-12.pdf |access-date=June 4, 2024 |website=University of Wisconsin Extension}}</ref> 

[[Potato starch]] is used in the food industry as a thickener and binder for soups and sauces, in the textile industry as an adhesive, and in the paper industry for the manufacturing of papers and boards.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Grant M. Campbell |author2=Colin Webb |author3=Stephen L. McKee |title=Cereals: Novel Uses and Processes |year=1997 |publisher=Springer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W4o7lUKSxyQC&pg=PA22 |isbn=978-0-306-45583-4 |page=22}}</ref><ref name="jai">{{cite book |title=Handbook of Potato Production, Improvement, and Postharvest |author1=Jai Gopal |author2=S.M. Paul Khurana |year=2006 |publisher=[[Haworth Press]] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hxy8pkP26NEC&pg=PA544 |isbn=978-1-56022-272-9 |page=544}}</ref>

Potatoes are commonly used in plant research. The consistent [[parenchyma]] tissue, the clonal nature of the plant and the low metabolic activity make it an ideal [[model organism |model tissue]] for experiments on wound-response studies and electron transport.<ref name="Espinoza Estrada Silva-Rodriguez Tovar 1986">{{cite journal | last1=Espinoza | first1=N. O. | last2=Estrada | first2=R. | last3=Silva-Rodriguez | first3=D. | last4=Tovar | first4=P. | last5=Lizarraga | first5=R. | last6=Dodds | first6=J. H. | title=The Potato: A Model Crop Plant for Tissue Culture | journal=Outlook on Agriculture | volume=15 | issue=1 | date=1986 | issn=0030-7270 | doi=10.1177/003072708601500104 | pages=21–26| bibcode=1986OutAg..15...21E }}</ref>