Potato Facts
Want to know some really interesting Potato Facts? We know some that will really surprise you!
- If you laid all the British potatoes that are turned into chips every year end to end they would stretch around the world 76 times
- The chips eaten in Great Britain each year come from potatoes weighing the equivalent of nearly 2.9million Formula 1 cars. Laid end to end, those chips would take you around Silverstone Grand prix circuit over 1.5 million times... equivalent to more than 26,000 British Grand Prix's
- 1 out of every 4 British potatoes are made into chips – that’s approximately 1.5 million tonnes every year
- Each 1kg bag of oven chips is, on average, made from a weighty 16 medium-sized potatoes
- 10% of the entire British potato crop is needed to supply all the fish and chip shops
- It would take an area the size of 56,000 Wembley Stadium football pitches to grow all the potatoes needed for the chips consumed in Great Britain each year
