Great Lakes Potato Chip Co offers Purple Blackberry potato chips for its 10 year anniversary
If you are living in Michigan or nearby, Purple potato chips could be on shelves at a grocery store near you this holiday season, thanks to a collaboration between Michigan State University researchers and Traverse City-based Great Lakes Potato Chip Co.
November 26, 2019
Purple Power: 7 Benefits of Purple Potatoes
Purple potatoes are the eye-catching gems of the potato aisle. Like other members of the potato family (Solanum tuberosum), they come from a tuber plant native to the Andes mountain region in South America.
November 27, 2016
NMSU researcher helps develop more nutritious potatoes
Can the nutritional value of potatoes be improved? That is the question USDA research geneticist Kathy Haynes has been asking for nearly 30 years. Her quest for the answer has led her to breeding a more nutritious potato, similar to the papa criolla types found in South America.
October 26, 2016
USDA clears Calyxt potato modified to withstand bruising
A new potato variety that’s genetically modified to withstand bruising has been cleared for commercialization without undergoing USDA’s deregulatory process for biotech crops.
September 01, 2015
Potato Nutrition ABC - brought to you by the United States Potato Board
Just in time for the back to school season, here is your A to Z guide on potato nutrition, brought to you by the United States Potato Board.
August 28, 2015
Colorful potatoes may pack powerful cancer prevention punch
Researchers of Penn State University discovered that compounds found in purple potatoes may help kill colon cancer stem cells and limit the spread of the cancer.
April 28, 2012
Colorado State University potatoes well represented in White House Garden
You say potato. I say Colorado. When First Lady Michelle Obama and a passel of schoolchildren recently planted vegetables in the White House kitchen garden, three of five potato varieties plunked into the soil were developed by Colorado State University.