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Russet Burbank

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Luther Burbank around 1922.

The Russet Burbank potato is large, brown skin, white-fleshed variety, developed by Luther Burbank in the 1870s in the USA. It is commonly used in French fries in fast food restaurants. When used for making potato chips, it results in a dark-colored chip due to caramelization, its sugar content being higher than that of the Maris Piper potato, more commonly used by chip makers.

The Russet Burbank is the most common potato variety grown in Idaho, the leading potato growing region of the United States. [1]

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Organic Russet-Burbank potatos.

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