• portuga@lemmy.world
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    Potatoes are a grain? Actually where do potatoes come from? I know they can come from other potatoes, but of course there must be a grain.

    These are the hard questions

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        I don’t want to go on a wikipedia hunt right now, for potato starch, but if you could educate me further, I would appreciate it

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          Not much to it, The starch is essentially just a type of complex carbohydrate, and potatoes are known to carry them in abundance. So while a potato is still technically a vegetable, it’s often referred to as a starch or starchy vegetable because of how much starch it contains.