Could 'Finding Nemo' potato be Britain's 'ultimate roasting spud'?

What bash you get erstwhile you premix a starchy rootlike and a cartoon fish? The "ultimate roasting spud", of course.

It whitethorn dependable similar a atrocious knock-knock joke, but request for the hybrid Nemo assortment of murphy has seen a boost successful the magnitude being planted.

Distinctive for its quality - reddish-pink tegument with yellowish patches - the murphy was named aft the clownfish successful Disney Pixar's Finding Nemo.

But the rootlike has besides been praised for cutting cooking times by 25%, which means redeeming vigor successful the location without sacrificing connected taste, according to Tesco.

The supermarket concatenation has said the murphy proved truthful fashionable erstwhile they went connected merchantability during a constricted proceedings successful stores, that murphy supplier Branston has planted capable of the assortment to past 7 months.

"The Nemo is present good connected its mode to becoming a modern British classical murphy and is already being talked astir by those who person tried it arsenic the eventual roasting spud," murphy purchaser for Tesco, Lucy Moss, said.

"The murphy is considered a game-changer not lone due to the fact that it tin slash cooking clip compared with the mean roasting spud, but besides due to the fact that of its fantastic creamy taste, affluent fluffy texture, crisp outer tegument and chiseled aureate colour."

Branston said it has plans to further summation availability of Nemo implicit the adjacent fewer years, with the hopes it could articulation the King Edward and Maris Piper arsenic the go-to spuds for roasting.

Mark Willcox, manager of agronomy astatine the supplier, said: "Establishing a caller murphy takes galore years arsenic we request to recognize however and wherever it grows champion portion investigating it successful the market."

He said Nemo potatoes besides payment the situation arsenic they necessitate tiny amounts of fertiliser, person beardown illness absorption and usage h2o efficiently.

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"Many of the Nemo fields person benefited section biodiversity done the planting of flower-rich writer tract margins," helium said.

Nemo is simply a phureja hybrid variety. It combines the fast-growing quality of archetypal Peruvian potatoes with the hardiness of modern European varieties from the Solanum tuberosum Solanaceae family.