boiled potato healthy or no?

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  • MsKeelah919
    MsKeelah919 Posts: 332 Member
    I don't mind having them every once in a while. Matter of fact, just yesterday I sauteed half a potato in with my mixed veggies! Its a way to get the potato fix and with half the calories. :)
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    Even as a Paleo, I've been known to have a potato here and there, usually cooking them in bacon fat. I have to try the duck fat way as suggested by Acg

    Yes, fried in duck fat sounds yummy!
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    It's not that the potato itself is bad, but all the delicious butter, sour cream, cheese, bacon, etc that's not so good for you. On the flip side, I do remember reading somewhere that having some fat with the potato actually helps make the potato lower on the Glycemic Index -causing less sugar spikes and keeping you full longer. many of micro-nutrients are in the skin are teh region immediately below the skin.

    If you are Glycemic-Index watching, then eat them cold. Seriously, cold potatoes, like potato salad, will be much slower to digest than hot ones fresh from the pan/oven.
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    Have as many as you want within your calorie limit - baked, fried, mashed whatever. Eat at a calorie deficit and you will lose weight.
    Why would you encourage someone to eat fried potatoes? It's not all about calories, its about improving your health overall too.

    A baked potato here and there is fine, but they're not the healthiest vegetables. Non-starchy vegetables should make up the majority of the veggies you eat for optimal nutrition. And DON'T fry them in oil like this guy recommended -__-

    What deleterious effects would eating fried potatoes here and there in an otherwise mostly whole food and varied diet have? I roast mine in duck fat nom nom nom
    Um, heart disease? Excess empty calories? Loss of nutrients?

    Do whatever you want, just don't try to perpetuate to others that its not harmful.

    Please substantiate that occasionally eating fried/roasted potatoes in an otherwise varied and micro nutrient diet will give you heart disease and will cause a loss of nutrients. And fat isn't important in one's diet?

    But please continue to fear monger without substantiating anything
    Eating animal fat is never beneficial :| The fats that the body needs are found in nuts, fatty vegetables like avocados, etc. Not cholesterol-laden animal fat (except maybe those from fish).

    Let me re-word my statement. You can have a healthy diet DESPITE occasional consumption of those things (key word is occasional, 10% of one's diet max). But they never CONTRIBUTE to the healthiness of one's diet. So if you're advising someone who wants to improve their diet & overall health, promoting that stuff as if it's going to benefit them is just inaccurate and misleading.

    Are you sure eating animal fat is never beneficial? I asked for you to substantiate your ridiculous claims, so please do.

    And if loss of nutrients is supposedly a deleterious effect, I sure hope you don't eat any whole grains...

    I would love to see proof that animal fat is unhealthy. And I'd bet a dollar that there are studies that contradict any that make that claim.
  • mabelbabel1
    mabelbabel1 Posts: 391 Member
    everyone talks about how much starch it has but is it really bad to have just one?


    Not it's not bad at all. Potatoes are fine.
  • SoDamnHungry
    SoDamnHungry Posts: 6,998 Member
    Keep the skin on. Try baking it? It loses less nutrients than if you boiled it.

    Starch is fine.
  • auroranflash
    auroranflash Posts: 3,569 Member
    Have as many as you want within your calorie limit - baked, fried, mashed whatever. Eat at a calorie deficit and you will lose weight.
    Why would you encourage someone to eat fried potatoes? It's not all about calories, its about improving your health overall too.

    A baked potato here and there is fine, but they're not the healthiest vegetables. Non-starchy vegetables should make up the majority of the veggies you eat for optimal nutrition. And DON'T fry them in oil like this guy recommended -__-



    What deleterious effects would eating fried potatoes here and there in an otherwise mostly whole food and varied diet have? I roast mine in duck fat nom nom nom
    Um, heart disease? Excess empty calories? Loss of nutrients?

    Do whatever you want, just don't try to perpetuate to others that its not harmful.

    Not all fats are bad, you know.
  • LoraF83
    LoraF83 Posts: 15,694 Member
    Have as many as you want within your calorie limit - baked, fried, mashed whatever. Eat at a calorie deficit and you will lose weight.
    Why would you encourage someone to eat fried potatoes? It's not all about calories, its about improving your health overall too.

    A baked potato here and there is fine, but they're not the healthiest vegetables. Non-starchy vegetables should make up the majority of the veggies you eat for optimal nutrition. And DON'T fry them in oil like this guy recommended -__-



    What deleterious effects would eating fried potatoes here and there in an otherwise mostly whole food and varied diet have? I roast mine in duck fat nom nom nom
    Um, heart disease? Excess empty calories? Loss of nutrients?

    Do whatever you want, just don't try to perpetuate to others that its not harmful.

    Not all fats are bad, you know.

    There you go with that common sense again! :laugh:
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    everyone talks about how much starch it has but is it really bad to have just one?

    Look up potatoes and all the great vitamins they have, plus they're high in potassium! Unless you have a medical condition or are for some reason very sensitive to carbs, eat your potato!
  • auroranflash
    auroranflash Posts: 3,569 Member
    everyone talks about how much starch it has but is it really bad to have just one?

    Look up potatoes and all the great vitamins they have, plus they're high in potassium! Unless you have a medical condition or are for some reason very sensitive to carbs, eat your potato!

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  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Eating animal fat is never beneficial :| The fats that the body needs are found in nuts, fatty vegetables like avocados, etc. Not cholesterol-laden animal fat (except maybe those from fish).

    But usually you fry potatoes in a vegetable oil.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Oh -- and a healthier mashed:

    Olive oil instead of butter and garlic powder instead of salt. You can use skim milk, almond milk, soy milk, whatever, to cut the calories. My VERY picky BF loves my mashed made that way.
  • corn63
    corn63 Posts: 1,580 Member
    Allow me to point out that you're arguing with someone that has a duckface in their profile picture. Just chew on that fat a bit.
  • Tw1zzler
    Tw1zzler Posts: 583
    Duck fat rules!
  • extraordinary_machine
    extraordinary_machine Posts: 3,028 Member
    Oh, you guys...cut duck face girl some slack. She's 19, therefore knows ALL THE THINGS!

    Potatoes are awesome.
  • PhillyTD
    PhillyTD Posts: 375 Member
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  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Oh, you guys...cut duck face girl some slack. She's 19, therefore knows ALL THE THINGS!

    Potatoes are awesome.

    18.

    She REALLY knows all the things.(Just ask her.)
  • LoraF83
    LoraF83 Posts: 15,694 Member
    Have as many as you want within your calorie limit - baked, fried, mashed whatever. Eat at a calorie deficit and you will lose weight.
    Why would you encourage someone to eat fried potatoes? It's not all about calories, its about improving your health overall too.

    A baked potato here and there is fine, but they're not the healthiest vegetables. Non-starchy vegetables should make up the majority of the veggies you eat for optimal nutrition. And DON'T fry them in oil like this guy recommended -__-

    What deleterious effects would eating fried potatoes here and there in an otherwise mostly whole food and varied diet have? I roast mine in duck fat nom nom nom
    Um, heart disease? Excess empty calories? Loss of nutrients?

    Do whatever you want, just don't try to perpetuate to others that its not harmful.

    Here's a new idea! I actually just thought of it - MODERATION! You're welcome.
    Unfortunately most people who are trying to lose weight have a very skewed view of what "moderation" even means. Hence why they're overweight in the first place.

    So instead of teaching them about moderation, we should be advocating that they cut out everything someone else deems "bad" so they don't have any chance of failure. Basically, put all the dieters in a bubble. Because that will totally work out well for the rest of their lives....

    I'd rather help people learn about moderation, about making sensible choices, about how to give their body the nutrition it needs and some of the "junk" that they want. You really can have it all - but you have to learn how to do that. Sorry you're not ready to learn that yet....but please don't assume that no one else is.
  • _Elemenopee_
    _Elemenopee_ Posts: 2,665 Member
    I like to fry my potatoes in bacon grease. Why waste great fats? You can also wait for the bacon grease to solidify in the pan and spread it on toast....nomnomnom
  • KilikiMom
    KilikiMom Posts: 237 Member
    who cares??? its a POTATO!!! best food on earth!! :) lol
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,409 Member
    Potatoes. Yum. I eat them almost every day. . .often fried. Like restaurant fried. I'm at a healthy weight and have kept my weight off for five years. Pay no attention to the young lady who is living in extreme-ville.

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