12 Amazing Uses of Potato
We use potato in cooking. But potato has many other uses too. Here are some amazing uses of potatoes.
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As an anti aging agent
Wash your face daily with potato juice (raw potato can be ground with water) which prevents wrinkles on face and make your face glow.
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Medicine for skin burn
Take a raw sliced potato and make it as a paste by mixing water. Apply the paste on minor skin burns to relieve pain.
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Medicine for headache
Take a half sliced raw potato, and rub it on your temples to get relief from headache.
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For tired eyes
Place two round slices on your eyes to reduce the tiredness of your eyes.
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Remove glue on hands
Potato can remove glue from hands. Use Potato to wash hands when you find it hard to remove the stickiness on hands after handling some sticky vegetables like pumpkin.
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As a shoe polish
Rub a raw potato on your old, dirty shoes before polishing them. They should come out nice and shiny.
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Act as a sleeping pill
Potato prevents the action of acids in our stomach that disturb our sleep. Take a boiled and mashed potato with milk before sleeping to have a peaceful sleep.
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As a polish on silverware
Boil potatoes in some water and remove the potato from water. Place your silver ware in the water for an hour. Silver ware will glaze.
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Extract salt for curry, soup
If you found excess salt in curry or soup, toss some large sliced potatoes into the curry pot or soup bowl, still on the stove. In about 5 to 10 minutes the potato slices absorb the excess salt. Then remove them from the pot or bowl.
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Keep glasses clear
Rubbing a potato on the glasses can prevent them from fogging up in the early morning.
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Make a decorative stamp
A potato can provide the right medium for making your own stamp for decorating envelopes and holiday cards. Cut a potato in half widthwise. Carve a design on one half. Then start stamping as you would with a wooden version.
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Lure worms in houseplants
If the worms crawl around the roots of plants, place a sliced raw potato around the base of the plant. The worms crawl up to eat it, you can grab them out.
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lizzie2uk | Sep 26, 2007 | Reply
Interesting and informative…looks like we both wrote about potatoes at the same time. LOL
valli | Sep 26, 2007 | Reply
ha ha ha… great minds think alike…
thanx for ur comment anyway
carolyn ann aish | Oct 6, 2007 | Reply
wow, lots of things I learned here – will have to try some of them out. Great article thanks.
Judy Sheldon | Nov 4, 2007 | Reply
Your no. 7 could explain why we refer to mashed potatoes as comfort food. They top my list! Thanks, Valli for the good tips – and another winner is how economic potatoes are.
khushi,India | Dec 30, 2007 | Reply
excellent uses of the great potatoea have been given..will definately use ..n try out..thanks ..do keep it up..
majik | Jul 30, 2008 | Reply
i just want to ask about number 7. what substance is present in the potatoes that can eliminate the acid which disturbs us in our sleep?
Munga James | Sep 26, 2008 | Reply
I am a college student in Kenya and am wondering what I can do with the potato peelings, because I want to recycle them, but I can’t figure out how
Munga James | Sep 26, 2008 | Reply
I am a college student in Kenya and am wondering what I can do with the potato peelings, because I want to recycle them, but I can’t figure out how
Felix | Sep 28, 2008 | Reply
I even use potato extract as diesel in my car.
bella | Oct 9, 2008 | Reply
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saurabh goyal | Dec 29, 2008 | Reply
thanx ,I learned here a lot. U need to add some industrial uses also….
Joy | Jan 8, 2009 | Reply
thanx for this article, it’s been a great help for my thesis work…
mwala | Jan 28, 2009 | Reply
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OFL | Feb 12, 2009 | Reply
ahm your no. 6.. is it true? who discovered that one???
POTATO AS AN ALTERNATIVE SHOE POLISH??!!
Who Cares | Feb 16, 2009 | Reply
why not testing
joy | Feb 24, 2009 | Reply
hahaha
xtine | Feb 24, 2009 | Reply
Cenaimy AZEIWAH,,, Cool Valli
inna | Feb 24, 2009 | Reply
cranky leit, Cool Valli
rosa | Feb 24, 2009 | Reply
Mayaoko Rupad,….Cool Valli
Mr. Awesome | Mar 1, 2009 | Reply
Thanks it really helped my project
sarah kinyua | Mar 24, 2009 | Reply
can it clear black spots on face?
xpskl | Apr 14, 2009 | Reply
It really helped my reasearch at school i’m 12
xpskl | Apr 14, 2009 | Reply
This is an awsome website!
Monet | May 20, 2009 | Reply
They definitely help with sleep…when I eat them I sleep well and I have insomnia but this is definitely helping…read Potatoes Not Prozac it is very informative about this affect… The potato increases the tryptophan which increases serotonin and calms you down…resulting in calmer mood and greater sleep!
brina | Jun 1, 2009 | Reply
If you have ever over-salted a dish, you can take an un-peeled potato and place it in this dish and the potato will soak up the salt. It works really well.
CHAN LEE PENG | Jun 16, 2009 | Reply
These are really complete info on potatoes. You’ve laid out the info in sequence and easy to understand format, thanks. Give you “liked it”
Taye | Aug 30, 2009 | Reply
Just freeze them. When you are ready to make a stock for cooking boil them along with other vegetable scraps. It makes a better stock than chicken or beef broth and you get nutrients from it
clayton | Oct 12, 2009 | Reply
don’t forget the all important ammunition side !!! Potato guns
are fun!
Linda Gay | Jun 21, 2010 | Reply
This potato trick really works. I get “cough headaches” often from straining…nothing has worked so far except the pototo!
caglar keskin | Aug 29, 2010 | Reply
Potatoes are one of the most common vegetables all over the world. They are cheap, easy to cook and have so many health benefits.
You can bake them, boil them, microwave them… everyone can make something to eat with potatoes.I will start to grow tomatoes
in my farm and now learning watever i can about them, thanks for information. I also found another good site
about potatoes and so many other methods of agriculturing, i recommend you to take a look.
http://agricultureguide.org/
p.luvahh! | Jan 4, 2011 | Reply
nice…
James | Apr 28, 2011 | Reply
Really its super use of POTATO .
Thanks,
JAmes
Whatever. (Courtney) ;D | Oct 23, 2012 | Reply
I am a 7th grader. And I am doing a science report on potatoes. And I need to have a cite page. So Valli, do you have a last name?
valli | Oct 25, 2012 | Reply
Courtney, My last name is Sarvani. Good luck with your project!