background crop cuisine edible food perennial potato potatoes texture tuber tuberous agriculture carbohydrates cooking diet edible-tuber foliage fresh garden gardening green greenery growing growth harvest healthy herbaceous home-grown nightshade nutrition nutritious plant plants Soil solanum-tuberosum spuds staple starchy toxic-leaves toxicity tubers vegetable vegetables vegie-patch vitamins basic carbohydrate clean cleaned color colour displayed distinctive elongated fiber fibre fingerling-potatoes flavor flavour kipfler-potatoes minerals raw savory savoury skin small small-potatoes spud starch surfaces taste tasty textures uncooked washed waxy Dirt dirty shooting shoots unwashed appearance colored colors coloured colours compare comparison culinary cultivars dicotyledonous enormous gigantic golden-sweet-potato herbaceous-perennial-vine ipomoea-batatas kūmara kūmera large nutritional popular purple root root-vegetable shape shapes size Sizes skin-colours skins surface sweet-potato sweet-potatoes varieties vine crunchy cultivar cultivated earth-apple ginger-like helianthus-tuberosus herbaceous-perennial inulin Jerusalem-artichoke knobbly nutty potato-substitute sunchoke sunflower-species sunroot topinambour uneven