title: Potato Production, Usage, and Nutrition--A Review.
abstract: Potato is an economically important staple crop prevailing all across the world with successful large-scale production, consumption, and affordability with easy availability in the open market. Potatoes provide basic nutrients such as-carbohydrates, dietary fiber (skin), several vitamins, and minerals (e.g., potassium, magnesium, iron). On occasion exposures to raw and cooked potatoes impart allergic reactions. Dietary intake of potatoes, especially colored potatoes, play an important role in the production of antioxidant defense system by providing essential nutrient antioxidants, such as vitamins, β-carotene, polyphenols, and minerals. This may help lower the incidence of wide range of chronic and acute disease processes (like hypertension, heart diseases, cancer, neurodegenerative, and other diseases). However, retention of nutrients in potatoes is affected by various cooking and processing methods. Cooking at elevated temperature also produces acrylamide-a suspected carcinogen. Independent and/or collaborative studies have been conducted and reported on the various pathways leading to the formation of acrylamide in heat processed foods. This article reviews the latest research on potato production, consumption, nature of phytochemicals and their health benefits, and allergic reactions to children. Also included is the discovery of acrylamide in processed starch-rich foods including potatoes, mechanism of formation, detection methodologies, and mitigation steps to reduce acrylamide content in food.
authors.affiliation: a Guelph Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada , Guelph , Ontario , Canada.
authors.forename: Khalid
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zaheer
authors.affiliation: a Guelph Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada , Guelph , Ontario , Canada.
authors.forename: M Humayoun
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Akhtar
mesh_terms: D020106:Acrylamide / Q000032:analysis; D003296:Cooking; D018556:Crops, Agricultural / Q000737:chemistry*; D004040:Dietary Carbohydrates / Q000032:analysis; D004043:Dietary Fiber / Q000032:analysis; D006358:Hot Temperature; D009753:Nutritive Value; D064209:Phytochemicals / Q000032:analysis; D059808:Polyphenols / Q000032:analysis; D011198:Solanum tuberosum / Q000737:chemistry*; D014131:Trace Elements / Q000032:analysis; D014815:Vitamins / Q000032:analysis; D019207:beta Carotene / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D004040:Dietary Carbohydrates; D004043:Dietary Fiber; D064209:Phytochemicals; D059808:Polyphenols; D014131:Trace Elements; D014815:Vitamins; D019207:beta Carotene; D020106:Acrylamide
keywords: Potato; acrylamide; allergic reaction; antioxidant; diseases; nutrient; phytochemicals; potato products