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Potatoes Are the Perfect Vegetable–But You're Eating Them Wrong
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- hooverd 2y agoPotatoes have superior potassium. I wish you could get more varieties than white, yellow, and red. I've seen purple potatoes but never by themselves. Also you should eat the skins.
- BenjiWiebe 2y agoI know. I'd like to be able to buy purple potatoes by the bag.
- HeyLaughingBoy 2y agoI have about two dozen purple potatoes growing out back. Potatoes are actually easy to grow in bags of dirt.
- seidleroni 2y agoCare to share how you're doing it? I'm a pretty terrible gardener but love potatoes and it looks like this may be an easy way to do it.
- HeyLaughingBoy 2y agoFold the sides of a 50lb horse feed bag down, fill with dirt and add seed potatoes is literally all I did. We go through lots of bags, so I have many empty ones. I have a problem with weeds (thistles) and oregano taking over everything in the garden area, so this was my lazy man's way of avoiding weeding. I also have a giant compost pile consisting of mostly wood shavings and horse manure that I planted about a dozen potatoes into as an experiment, along with a couple dozen carrots. So far they seem to be doing really well.
- ofrzeta 2y agoWhy should you eat the skins? I've heard they contain all the nutrients but I read an interview with a nutrition expert who said that was wrong (makes sense, too). He also said the highest concentration of nutrients was near the surface so I guess leaving the skin on serves this purpose (but not the skin as such! :-) I would leave the skin on on so called early potatoes that have really thin skin. And I am using a Victorinox peeler that produces the thinnest peels for me. https://schweizer-messer.eu/victorinox-sparschaeler/ https://schweizer-messer.eu/victorinox-sparschaeler/ (others in the family won't use it due to the crank, though)
- freeone3000 2y agoThe skins are tasty!
- blacksmith_tb 2y agoMost of the fiber is in the skin[1]. There's some debate about if it also contains more pesticides etc. but you can grow your own or buy organic. It is true that you want to keep your potatoes in the cool and dark, since when they green they become more toxic[2]. 1: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/foods/potatoes#nutrition https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/foods/potatoes#nutritio... 2: https://ask.usda.gov/s/article/Are-green-potatoes-dangerous https://ask.usda.gov/s/article/Are-green-potatoes-dangerous
- ofrzeta 2y agoI buy organic potatoes but I don't think everything natural is good, for instance high arsenic levels in rice, even more so in brown rice. Concerning the potatoes there's some kind of preservative they put on the potatoes to inhibit germination (on non-organic potatoes). They used Chlorpropham but that seems to be prohibited since 2020 (in the EU?), now they use Maleic hydrazide but I don't know about any health issues.
- Sohcahtoa82 2y ago> Also you should eat the skins. The skins are easily the tastiest part. It's an absolute tragedy that people think you need to peel them, especially for french fries. Even with mashed potatoes, I leave the skins on. I just dice them into small pieces before boiling so there aren't huge skin chunks.
- wkat4242 2y ago> Potatoes have superior potassium I see what you did there lol
- RoadRageRyan 2y agohttps://archive.is/xRfRu https://archive.is/xRfRu
- GEBBL 2y agoA hape ‘a spuds with a slatherin of real butter is hard til bate,bai!
- 11235813213455 2y agoBoiled potatoes are the most satiating food. I met a person saying her doctor didn't recommend it with her diabete, I find this strange, even if there are starch, you feel so full after eating a few potatoes there's no risk Least satiating food are croissants, 7x less than potatoes
- johnkpaul 2y agoIf you're specifically looking for the most satiating, I'd recommend a room temperature stick of butter. It's really hard to eat more after a stick of butter.
- 11235813213455 2y agoNo, butter has low satiety (like croissant which are partly made with) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7498104/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7498104/, https://www.dietdoctor.com/satiety/foods#:~:text=44-,Fats%20and%20oils,-Butter%2C%20oil%2C%20and https://www.dietdoctor.com/satiety/foods#:~:text=44-,Fats%20...
- adamomada 2y agoWhite potatoes are in the middle but French fries (I’m assuming fried? But you can bake them too) are at the bottom, so strange Also based on that list, I think salsa might be the perfect mix: low cal and high satiety
- 11235813213455 2y agoThe second article isn't the best link, the satiety score metric isn't as good as in 1st link
- im3w1l 2y agoEating high-water food is filling. Compare an apple to dried apple slices, a grape to a raisin.
- klondike_klive 2y agoA few times I tried eating only steamed white potatoes for a few days, it appealed to my all-or-nothing mentality (and desire to reduce mental overhead in choosing what to eat). Inspired by this https://potatohack.com https://potatohack.com It was about eight years ago. I didn't get tired of potatoes. It was cheap. If I remember correctly I spiced things up by making chicken broth into gravy by mixing in potato starch.
- brcmthrowaway 2y agoWhats the TLDR of this article?
- mock-possum 2y agotl;dr: you should eat more potatoes, fresh are more healthy than frozen.