How healthy are patatoes? | How to be healthy

Potatoes are an indispensable part of our diet.  But by several well-known diets, this tuber is unjustly discredited.  You'd be fat.  I reveal the truth and unexpected facts about the potato.
In 1727 the potato was recognized in the Netherlands as an edible vegetable.  But since then the potatoes are very popular we eat them fried, boiled, mashed, roasted and toasted.

Fattening
 

Many people think of potatoes as they arrive that they cause fatness.  This is partly because the potato is a source of starch (complex carbohydrates), and carbohydrates are known as fattening.  In a boiled potato there is not even a gram of fat.  And when you consider that a gram of starch contains 4 calories and 1 gram of fat contains 9 calories, then it's not bad.

Rice versus potatoes
 

Strikingly, rice is seen as light food.  But 200 grams of potatoes contains 150 kcal compared to 200 grams of rice that contains 250 kcal.  Moreover, complex carbohydrates are slowly digested by your body, so you've a satisfied feeling.  Potatoes are so wrongly labeled as fattening.  Potatoes continue to be fattening if you eat them with mayonnaise or while frying allow them swimming in butter.  For example, a cup of mayonnaise without fries is not less than 700 kcal.

Storage Station of nutrients
 

Potatoes have calories that you do not have to leave.  It also contains essential nutrients such as vitamin C, that the human body cannot produce but plants can.  The potato stores a part of the substances created for later use.  Storage organs such as the bulb (ui) and tubers (potato), therefore, often contain high concentrations of substances which are important for the plant, but may also be essential for humans.

 Disease prevention 

 Potatoes contain carotenoids and vitamin C. These are anti-oxidants in our body.  In this way they contribute to prevent cancer, heart disease, stroke and many other chronic diseases.  Also, the potatoes are rich in fiber, essential for proper bowel function.  Potatoes also contain iron, potassium, vitamin B1, B6 and important plant proteins.

Most healthy potato
 

In some potato varieties, antioxidants are found naturally high, while the levels in other varieties are low.  Potato varieties with many carotenoids that are often recognizable by the yellowish flesh color.  To take full advantage of the healthy nutrients of potatoes, you peel them in the boiling or steaming.  So they lose fewer minerals, vitamins and flavor.  Brush them thoroughly under running water.  Only then is the edible rind.  The most-most delicious new potatoes are in skins.

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