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The power of potatoes

THE HUMBLE potato is rightly loved for its versatility and value for money, but it is also packed with plenty of valuable health-giving nutrients.

Such is its importance as a staple part of our diet that when the potato crop failed in Ireland, during the mid 1800s, a third of the population were deprived of vital nutrients and an eighth of the population perished due to malnutrition.

Nowadays, dieticians

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