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Red potato yields 85%
You buy red potato by its whole weight, but you only plate 85% of it. That 15% loss is real cost the invoice never shows — here's the math.
Yield is the fraction of an ingredient that actually reaches the plate after you clean, peel, and trim it. What you pay is the AP (as-purchased) price; what it costs on the plate is the EP (edible-portion) price.
Peel loss is real; skin-on prep recovers most of it when the dish allows.
Say your invoice shows $1.10 per lb of red potato (an example AP price).
At 85% yield, your real cost is $1.29 per lb EP — because $1.10 ÷ 0.85 = $1.29.
AP price is illustrative; the EP figure is computed (AP ÷ yield). Use your real invoice price below.Yield breakdown
| As-purchased (AP) | 100% |
|---|---|
| Edible portion (EP) | 85% |
| Lost to trim | 15% |
Source: CIA Standard Yield Tables.
Common questions
What is the yield of red potato?
Red potato typically yields 85% edible portion of its as-purchased weight, per the CIA Standard Yield Tables.
How much red potato is lost to trim?
About 15% of the as-purchased weight is lost to cleaning, peeling, and trimming before it reaches the plate.
How do you calculate the edible-portion cost of red potato?
Divide the as-purchased price by the yield: EP cost = AP price ÷ 0.85. At 85% yield, the trim makes your real plated cost meaningfully higher than the invoice price.
Market readconfidence medium · as of 2026-07-24
About $30.00–$35.06/sack (wholesale reference), up +20.9% over the recent window.
Higher than 20 of its last 26 weekly reads — near the top of its recent range.
Cheapest in Miami (~$22.00), priciest in New York (~$41.00).
Watch. Up on paper, but for this item the move is not yet distinguishable from its own week-to-week noise once we account for every ingredient we check at once — we are holding this read as context until the next print.
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Sourced: CIA Standard Yield Tables, via the Plate Cost Calculator · what yield means · edible portion