With Thanksgiving quickly approaching, Slider's Healthy Thought of The Day is About Potatoes!

Did you know…

• Potatoes were often eaten aboard ships to prevent scurvy because they are loaded with vitamin C, nearly 46% of the daily recommended amount!
• Potatoes can be prepared many ways including boiled, mashed, baked, or made into French fries and hash browns.
• Although it shares the same name, sweet potatoes are a root vegetable while regular potatoes are tubers (underground stems), and are only loosely related.
• The United States first president George Washington grew sweet potatoes on his farmland in Mount Vernon, Virginia.
• You can get baked potatoes at a Honkers games!

Be sure to check back for Slider's Healthy Thought of the Day again next week presented by Olmsted County Public Health and your Rochester Honkers!