Poisoned potato chips! They really made them

A while back, scientists from the USDA, Penn State and Wise Potato Chips cooperated on breeding a new potato that would make a better potato chip. It had to be low in moisture and lower than usual in sugar content. And after some trials they ended up crossing the South American wild potato S. chacoense with Menominee and with two other USDA seedlings and those with Cherokee and Earlaine to form a seedling they called B5141-6 and eventually named Lenape.

Lenape was an ideal potato for chips that not only had high solids content and low …read more