Our national treasure, the potato, is the king of superfoods

Next Friday is National Potato Day and Fiann Ó Nualláin wants us to see the humble spud in a new light.

I must confess that I, rather like Popeye, prefer my iron from spinach and not from a chocolate coated wheat cereal with added iron and B vitamins (added because the original nutrients got lost during processing).

And I don’t much relish the thoughts of a maple syrup and treacle based flap jack ‘enriched’ with extract of acai berry to give me energy and stamina when I can get all the healthy anthocyanins (the blue pigment that makes acai super) and vitamin C that I need, from the blackberries and blueberries in my garden and local supermarket – without the tsunami of added sugar.