I am a great fan of potatoes and recently i started gaining interest to know more about one of my favourite meal.
I often think of potatoe as a comfort food — richly mashed with butter and sour cream or crisply fried in vegetable oil.
But when prepared in these ways, I learnt could lead to weight gain, diabetes and heart disease.
A fact i found, was that people who ate fried potatoes twice a week saw an increased risk of death. Researchers found that those who ate fried potatoes — French fries, hash browns, home fries and more — were more than twice as likely to have died.
But Victoria Jarzabkowski, a nutritionist with the Fitness Institute of Texas at The University of Texas at Austin says: potatoes aren’t necessarily bad for you. When cooked the right way — without heaps of butter, cheese or cream — they can even be good for you.
Potatoes are low in calories — a medium-sized baked potato contains only about 110 calories. They are a good source of vitamins C and B6, manganese, phosphorus, niacin and pantothenic acid.
So if u're a lover of potatoes or just an eater, I apprise us to eat it the right way and enjoy every pleasure we get from it.