Where were potatoes first grown?
Potatoes were first domesticated in the Andes Mountains of South America, in what's now Peru and Bolivia, thousands of years ago.
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- Where did spinach come from?
“Spinach originated in ancient Persia.”
Reference: Encyclopaedia Britannica
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