Sweet potatoes

chulipa

Does it matter calorie wise if you bake or boil them let say 100g

pinggolfer96

Nope, unless you're adding something, the nutritional value does not change

chulipa

Wasnt sure since baking takes out moisture and boiling may add water

seska422

chulipa wrote: »

Wasnt sure since baking takes out moisture and boiling may add water

Water weight doesn't change the calories but it does change the weight of the final product. If you plan to split the final product into servings and you want to weigh the servings, you need to take the calories and divide by the new cooked weight to get the calories per gram for the final product.

If you are eating the whole sweet potato, it won't matter because the overall calories don't change when water is added or subtracted. If you are splitting the sweet potato, weigh it after cooking so that you can get the new calories per gram and then you can weigh your section.

sndrd49

Rocco Respiratory (sp?) says boiling reduces the sugar content significantly.

angelexperiment

It is best to add a fat to sweet potato as it makes it easier to get all the antioxidants from it. It is very healing to the gut! Olive oil, grass fed butter, coconut oil. A tsp is fine. Look up sweet potatoes they are fascinating little powerhouses

marm1962

the glycemic index of boiled sweet potatoes was found to be about half that of baking or roasting, so boiled sweet potatoes give us less of a blood sugar spike. --- Not Less Sugar

sndrd49

marm1962 wrote: »

the glycemic index of boiled sweet potatoes was found to be about half that of baking or roasting, so boiled sweet potatoes give us less of a blood sugar spike. --- Not Less Sugar

Thank you for correcting me.

ARGriffy

I cut into large rounds, drizzle a tsp of coconut oil then bake untill soft and eat as a snack! Yum!

chulipa

I eat chicken for dinner every night and my dietician told me to eat more sweet potatoes and i dont cook with oil can spray i do, but is there a easy combination of 3oz boiled chicken and 100g sweet potatoes. I like tomatoes, green peppers, and jalapeno peppers i eat these most nights. So if anyone has any ideas please let me know. I cook just for me my husband i fix his food first so dont have much time for me but its working

Sabine_Stroehm

marm1962 wrote: »

the glycemic index of boiled sweet potatoes was found to be about half that of baking or roasting, so boiled sweet potatoes give us less of a blood sugar spike. --- Not Less Sugar

THIS

lemurcat12

marm1962 wrote: »

the glycemic index of boiled sweet potatoes was found to be about half that of baking or roasting, so boiled sweet potatoes give us less of a blood sugar spike. --- Not Less Sugar

This, but for most of us it doesn't matter. I think they taste best roasted, so always roast them.

Another wrinkle is that a lot of the nutrition is in the peel and I suspect many are more likely to peel them to boil them, so that might be a point in favor of roasting.

rhauser44

I microwave sweet potatoes for about six minutes and eat them with the skin. Love'em!

RoxieDawn

I Weigh my sweet potatoes before I cook them (after remove the skins), as to how they are cooked makes no matter how I eat them/cook them, I take the weight before cooking. Just like I do chicken, etc,

I weigh raw every time and log the weight for raw.