Potatoes and Vegetable Serving

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  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
    Double check your links. I agree that potatos and sweet potatos are pretty close nutritionally, but when you change the serving to 100g for each the differences aren't what you posted.

    Potatoes and sweet potatoes are close to identical in their nutritional data, with the exception of sweet potatoes super high vitamin A content.

    So they aren't the same.
  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member
    Double check your links. I agree that potatos and sweet potatos are pretty close nutritionally, but when you change the serving to 100g for each the differences aren't what you posted.

    Potatoes and sweet potatoes are close to identical in their nutritional data, with the exception of sweet potatoes super high vitamin A content.

    So they aren't the same.

    100g of potatoes weighs the same as 100g of sweet potatoes...


    ...so they're the same.
  • asciiqwerty
    asciiqwerty Posts: 565 Member
    moderation is key, the thing about spuds (potatoes) is that their classification varies in different countries, int he UK they're classified as carbs rather than veg and don't count in the local 5 a day recommendation

    nutritionally there's also a big difference between skin on spuds and peeled spuds - though not really as simple as saying that one is good and the other bad
    http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/skin-potato-really-vitamins-5378.html

    how you prepare your spuds is also going be very important

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