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Potatoes - healthy or avoid?

Seems to me it is all carbs. Sweet potatoes don't seem any better.
 
Perfectly healthy.

Add butter, salt, sour cream, etc..not as much.
Eating a pot of potatos? No.


As with all foods, it is amounts and what you do with it.
 
Anytime I see a thread like this I have to laugh.

Seems to me it is all carbs. Sweet potatoes don't seem any better.
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Seems to you, huh? Have you actually LOOKED UP the nutritional value of potatoes, or are you just making what we call a WAG (wild-assed guess)?

I'm pretty sure you haven't done any research at all. :) The most cursory look would show you this:

A medium white potato contains the following:
Cals 77
Carbohydrates 19 g
Starch 15 g
Dietary fiber 2.2 g
Fat 0.1 g
Protein 2 g
Thiamine (Vit. B1) 0.08 mg (6%)
Riboflavin (Vit. B2) 0.03 mg (2%)
Niacin (Vit. B3) 1.1 mg (7%)
Vitamin B6 0.25 mg (19%)
Vitamin C 20 mg (33%)
Calcium 12 mg (1%)
Iron 1.8 mg (14%)
Magnesium 23 mg (6%)
Phosphorus 57 mg (8%)
Potassium 421 mg (9%)


A medium sweet potato has this:
Cals 86
Carbohydrates 20.1 g
Starch 12.7 g
Sugars 4.2 g
Dietary fibre 3.0 g
Fat 0.1 g
Protein 1.6 g
Vitamin A equiv. 709 ?g (79%)
- beta-carotene 8509 ?g (79%)
- lutein and zeaxanthin 0 ?g
Thiamine (Vit. B1) 0.1 mg (8%)
Riboflavin (Vit. B2) 0.1 mg (7%)
Niacin (Vit. B3) 0.61 mg (4%)
Pantothenic acid (B5) 0.8 mg (16%)
Vitamin B6 0.2 mg (15%)
Folate (Vit. B9) 11 ?g (3%)
Vitamin C 2.4 mg (4%)
Calcium 30.0 mg (3%)
Iron 0.6 mg (5%)
Magnesium 25.0 mg (7%)
Phosphorus 47.0 mg (7%)
Potassium 337 mg (7%)
Sodium 55 mg (2%)
Zinc 0.3 mg (3%)

I found both of these by Googling "nutritional value potato" and "nutritional value sweet potato". Took me less than 5 mins to find them.
 
KaraCooks said:
Anytime I see a thread like this I have to laugh.

Seems to you, huh? Have you actually LOOKED UP the nutritional value of potatoes, or are you just making what we call a WAG (wild-assed guess)?

I'm pretty sure you haven't done any research at all. :) The most cursory look would show you this:

A medium white potato contains the following:
Cals 77
Carbohydrates 19 g
Starch 15 g
Dietary fiber 2.2 g
Fat 0.1 g
Protein 2 g
Thiamine (Vit. B1) 0.08 mg (6%)
Riboflavin (Vit. B2) 0.03 mg (2%)
Niacin (Vit. B3) 1.1 mg (7%)
Vitamin B6 0.25 mg (19%)
Vitamin C 20 mg (33%)
Calcium 12 mg (1%)
Iron 1.8 mg (14%)
Magnesium 23 mg (6%)
Phosphorus 57 mg (8%)
Potassium 421 mg (9%)


A medium sweet potato has this:
Cals 86
Carbohydrates 20.1 g
Starch 12.7 g
Sugars 4.2 g
Dietary fibre 3.0 g
Fat 0.1 g
Protein 1.6 g
Vitamin A equiv. 709 ?g (79%)
- beta-carotene 8509 ?g (79%)
- lutein and zeaxanthin 0 ?g
Thiamine (Vit. B1) 0.1 mg (8%)
Riboflavin (Vit. B2) 0.1 mg (7%)
Niacin (Vit. B3) 0.61 mg (4%)
Pantothenic acid (B5) 0.8 mg (16%)
Vitamin B6 0.2 mg (15%)
Folate (Vit. B9) 11 ?g (3%)
Vitamin C 2.4 mg (4%)
Calcium 30.0 mg (3%)
Iron 0.6 mg (5%)
Magnesium 25.0 mg (7%)
Phosphorus 47.0 mg (7%)
Potassium 337 mg (7%)
Sodium 55 mg (2%)
Zinc 0.3 mg (3%)

I found both of these by Googling "nutritional value potato" and "nutritional value sweet potato". Took me less than 5 mins to find them.
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Is there an ignore list here? Yes, I looked it up! thought I'd open a discussion into the healthiness of the food outside of the stated fact that they are high in carbs.

Most all veggies are carbs yet we still ingest copious amounts. Avoid white carbs - white bread, white rice, etc. - people say. Well, the potato is white.

But, thanks for copy-pasting the info I looked up PRIOR to starting a thread.
 
But, thanks for copy-pasting the info I looked up PRIOR to starting a thread.
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I can only respond to what you write in your post. What you wrote indicated that you had no knowledge of the nutrtional value of potatoes.

There is more to losing weight than carbs vs. no carbs.
 
First, you can't ignore a mod, sorry. Kara is rough around the edges and blunt as a brick with her information but she is right. She often is.

I think you are taking the color as just that instead of the reasoning behind that saying. The idea of avoiding white foods is they are processed a certain way. You lose a strong amount of the fiber and nutritional value that way. That is why they suggest brown rice vs white or wheat vs white bread.

As far as potato, this is not the case. A nice medium baked potato with some salsa is a wonderful dish/snack for weight loss. There is nothing wrong with a potato.

My suggestion for your next thread like this is not to leave is so open ended : potatos, devil or just bad for you. If your goal was to open a talk about their healthiness then put a position out there. All you said was it was alot of carbs instead of saying anything else one way or the other. Kara posted her counter debate showing they have plenty of nutritional value with realitively low calories.
 
"Don't eat white food" doesn't apply if the food was made by god/nature.
Only if it was made in a factory.
 
I prefer to eat rice - potatoes have more fat and rice tastes better
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Um ...

Medium potato: 0.1g of fat
White rice (1 cup): 0.4g of fat
Brown rice (1 cup): 0.9g of fat

I really wish people would quit posting things that they pull out of thin air as facts and actually bother to look things up.
 
LilyRay said:
I prefer to eat rice - potatoes have more fat and rice tastes better :)
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Though they are both incredibly low in fat, rice definitely has more.
 
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