FOOD TECHNOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Tubers grow underground, no matter if they are stem tubers or root tubers. An example of a tuber plant is the potato. In potato plants, the stem organ is enlarged to form potatoes, which are the fleshy tuber filled with starch.

Detailed explanation-2: -Tubers are usually high in starch. Examples are kūmara, potatoes, (storage root), yam, taro, Jerusalem artichoke and ulluco.

Detailed explanation-3: -The potato is a typical tuber, as is the Jerusalem artichoke. The term is also used imprecisely but widely for fleshy roots, corms, or rhizomes of other plants that resemble tubers-e.g., the “tuber” (actually a tuberous root) of a dahlia.