#potato

#potato

Drink Your Potatoes: Here Comes Potato Milk, the Newest Plant-Based Alt-MilkAs more and more people turn to plant-based milk in place of the traditional dairy products, milk based on beans like oats and almonds among others are gaining popularity. While oats have been dominating the alt-milk market for quite some time, another challenger is entering the fray. British supermarket chain Waitrose is now sellingDug, a potato-based milk brand from Sweden, in 220 stores.Made in the UK, Dug’s ingredients include pea protein, rapeseed oil and potato. It describes itself as “super sustainable” and has worked with CarbonCloud, an organization dedicated to measuring carbon footprints of food. Potato cultivation requires significantly lower carbon emission than dairy milk. Growing potatoes is also twice as efficient as oats and uses less water than almonds, as per report. The arrival of potato milk signals a growing awareness of the impact that animal farming brings to the environment. Waitrose’s alternative milk buyer, Alice Shrubsall, says sales of milk alternatives had “gone from strength-to-strength over the past few years” and is showing no sign of slowing down. She also notes that customers are becoming more experimental with their choices, signifying a potential for more growth going forward.Images: @dugdrinks/IG#potato #altmilk #Dug #milk

New Zealand Couple Grew a Giant 17.4-lb Potato the Size of a Small Dog and Named it DougWhen Colin and Donna Craig-Brown were weeding in their garden, they unexpectedly encountered a rather strange and ugly “mutant”-looking object which they thought was a puffball mushroom."We couldn't believe it," Donna said. "It was just huge."It was a giant potato!This potato officially weighed 7.8 kg (17.4 lb) - a size of a small dog - and the couple is currently waiting for the response of the Guinness World Record for the title of world's heaviest potato. Meanwhile, Colin and Donna named the giant potato “Doug” and built a small cart to tow it around."We put a hat on him. We put him on Facebook, taking him for a walk, giving him some sunshine," Collin said. "It's all a bit of fun. It's amazing what entertains people."As they waited for the response, the potato already gained fame throughout the neighborhood. Although molds had grown through certain parts of the potato and it had started to smell, Colin never failed to do his best in preserving and cleaning it for it to remain presentable.The couple were honest to reveal that they didn’t really have any “gardening secrets.”"It's a mystery to me," Colin said. "It's one of nature's little pleasant surprises."Image credit: Donna Craig-Brown/AP