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Home » Vegetables » Root Vegetables » Potatoes » All-Purpose Potatoes » Trent Potatoes

Trent Potatoes

Trent are round potatoes with light-buff skin, sometimes with some flaking or netting, and white flesh.

They are marketed as all-purpose for direct to consumer sales, for processing into potato chips (aka crisps in the UK) or for processing into French Fries (aka chips in the UK.)

Not grown commercially (as of 2006.)

Storage Hints

Stores well.

History Notes

Trent Potatoes were developed by Agriculture Canada at the Ontario Agricultural College, University of Guelph, in Ontario, Canada in 1965 from a cross between Nordak and Lenape potatoes.

During development, the potato was referred to as “G6549-7.”

Released 1978.

This page first published: Apr 11, 2005 · Updated: Oct 4, 2020.

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