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Antoine Parmentier convinced France to embrace the potato in 1785. Captured during the Seven Years War in Prussia, he learned to survive on potatoes and discovered their merits. In France, enduring myths led to a ban on potato cultivation. As a pharmacist and agronomist, he proved that potatoes were both safe and nutritious. Granted land near Paris, he stationed armed guards in his fields by day and removed them at night, enticing locals to steal the forbidden crop. Soon, potatoes became a stapl