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The vegetable that conquered the world by refusing to be interesting.
means Starchy edible tubers from a nightshade plant, eaten boiled, fried, mashed, or in roughly every cuisine on Earth.
from From Spanish patata, a mangling of the Taino word batata for sweet potato, after Andean farmers domesticated the spud thousands of years ago.
Famine fuelIreland's overdependence killed roughly a million people.
Space cropFirst vegetable grown aboard the Space Shuttle.
Toxic kinGreen parts contain poison; it's a nightshade relative.
Global rankFourth most important food crop worldwide.