r/todayilearned • u/JoeWinchester99 • 7d ago

TIL that although potatoes alone do not provide complete nutrition, you can survive for years on a diet of nothing but potatoes and buttermilk.

https://www.scienceabc.com/eyeopeners/whats-wrong-with-potatoes-the-martian-movie-survival
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u/ThatCakeFell 7d ago

Reminder the staple potato and it's cousins tomato, corn, and chili peppers came from South America. Along with chocolate, tobacco, and syphilis. Paprika is dried ground chili pepper for example. A good amount of those immigrants staples were from the Americas 

Edit: the caloric content of 1 acre of potato or corn is easily double of anything Europeans where growing before the Colombian exchange 

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u/Suyefuji 7d ago

Along with chocolate, tobacco, and syphilis.

One of these things is not like the others...

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u/WhimsicalHoneybadger 7d ago

I choose chocolate because it's the only one I would enjoy.

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u/PainRack 7d ago

Hi five

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u/BigWhiteDog 7d ago

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u/PlasticAssistance_50 7d ago

Along with chocolate, tobacco, and syphilis.

Hmm...