What catagory does a potato fall under fruit or vegetable or neither what exactly is a potato?

Answer 1

Potatoes are roots, more specifically Rhizomes, like ginger root and peanuts! Really! Of COURSE they're vegetables and have starch, vitamins, minerals, sugars and carbs.
Search Rhizomes and you'll find potatoes listed.
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Answer 2

Baked Potato

Answer 3

Potatoes are a vegetable. Originally cultivated by the Inca's in South America thousands of years ago.

Answer 4

Potatos should actually be listed as a starch.
They are a starchy root vegetable.

Starchy foods generally have Carb calories without much nutritional value (vitamins, minerals, etc.). Most of the fiber, minerals, etc. in a potato are in the skin. This is why most dieticians suggest leaving the skin on now a days.

Answer 5

A potato is a vegetable. It grows in the ground like cucumber.
You just cut them in half and bury them and they grow. That's about it. It is a root veggie.

Answer 6

you could have saved your points
The dictionary is on the Yahoo Toolbar
as Reference

po·ta·to

NOUN:
pl. po·ta·toes
1: A South American plant (Solanum tuberosum) widely cultivated for its starchy edible tubers.
2: A tuber of this plant.
3: A sweet potato.

veg·e·ta·ble
NOUN:

1: A plant cultivated for an edible part, such as the root of the beet, the leaf of spinach, or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower.
2: The edible part of such a plant.
3: A member of the vegetable kingdom; a plant.
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Answer 7

A potato is actually considered a "tuber" or "root" vegetable

Answer 8

I have always thought of it as a veggie, a starch and a kinda root. but I always need to eat a veggie with a potato...........

Answer 9

It is a veggie, but more specifically a starch. When making a meal people tend to place it in the category of pasta, and bread. Hope this helps .

Answer 10

it is a root vegtable