but encouraging results in potatoes could mean similar results could be achieved in other root tuber crops like cassava, a staple food in Sub-Saharan African countries expected to be heavily ...

A new small-scale study found that when participants switched from a western diet to the traditional Kilimanjaro diet, their health markers improved in as little as two weeks. The researchers say they ...

But in the 18th century the tuber was a startling novelty ... what they were in the Andes—a staple. Roughly 40 percent of the Irish ate no solid food other than potatoes; the figure was between ...

3) Break bread: Bread is the staff of life and one of the oldest staple foods ... and tubers (yams, potatoes, sweet potatoes) have long been significant cultural foods. Sweet potatoes (which ...

Sweet potatoes are a staple food in many parts of the country ... "If you want to focus on vine rather than tuber production, you can use the DAP fertilisers on your sweet potato crop," says ...