Organic Vegetables | Organic Facts

Efficient Organic Tomato Farming

Organic tomatoes fetch a higher premium! Walk into a vegetable store and enquire about the prices of organic tomatoes and non-organic tomatoes. You will agree that organic tomatoes fetch 10% to 30% higher price than conventional tomatoes do. This is a big incentive for any farmer to switch to organic farming of tomatoes. You will be surprised to know, but tomato is one of the highest pesticide sprayed vegetable in the world. Hence, growing organic ...

Potato Sprouts: Are They Good?

Potato sprouts are often seen when you store potatoes for a long duration. Is it safe to eat sprouted potatoes and how do you prevent potatoes from sprouting? Advertisement Potato sprouts are certainly not good. When potatoes sprout, the starch in the potatoes is converted into sugar. It is suggested that if the potato is firm, it has most of the nutrients intact and can be eaten after removing the sprouted part. However, if the ...

Nutritional Value of Potato

Advertisement The nutritional value of potato along with its taste and ease of cooking has made it the most popular vegetable in the entire world. Think of the day when you didn’t eat even a single dish containing potatoes. Quite difficult, right? It is said that on an average, an American consumes 62 kg of potatoes each year. We consume almost one spud of potato every day . No doubt, people consume so many potatoes ...