What to Do When Potatoes Suffer Herbicide or Pesticide Damage? A Detailed Guide to Remedies

The potato is also called the potato, and it is the world's fourth most important food crop, after wheat, rice and maize. China is the country with the largest total potato production, so what should you do when potatoes suffer chemical damage?

1. What to do when potatoes suffer chemical damage

First you need to identify what kind of damage it is. Some damage comes from herbicides, which can be broken down with herbicide safener additives. Some damage comes from pesticides, which can be recovered from with fertilizer promoters and plant cell repair agents.

2. The benefits and effects of potatoes

1. Preventing stroke

Potatoes are rich in B vitamins and high-quality fiber, and they help delay aging in the human body. The dietary fiber and sucrose that potatoes are rich in help prevent and treat cancers of the digestive tract and control blood cholesterol levels. Eating potatoes regularly can prevent atherosclerosis, and medical experts believe that eating one potato a day can greatly reduce the risk of stroke.

2. Weight loss

You do not need to worry about excess fat when eating potatoes, because they contain only 0.1% fat. Eating more potatoes every day can reduce fat intake and let the excess fat gradually be metabolized by the body.

3. Nourishing the stomach

Traditional Chinese medicine holds that potatoes can harmonize the stomach and regulate the middle, strengthen the spleen and boost qi, and are of great benefit in treating gastric ulcers, habitual constipation and other conditions. They also have both detoxifying and anti-inflammatory effects.

4. Lowering blood pressure

Potatoes contain components that lower blood pressure and have effects similar to blood pressure medication. They can block the conversion of angiotensin I into angiotensin II and can lower the plasma level of angiotensin II, which has vasoactive effects, causing peripheral blood vessels to dilate and blood pressure to drop.

5. Relieving constipation

The crude fiber in potatoes can lubricate the intestines and relieve constipation, thereby preventing a sudden rise in blood pressure caused by constipation sufferers straining and holding their breath during a bowel movement.

The potato originated in the Andean mountain region of South America, and its earliest history of artificial cultivation can be traced back to roughly 8000 to 5000 BC in the southern region of Peru. The main potato-producing countries include China, Russia, India, Ukraine, the United States and others.