What diary entry would you use: Baked sweet potato
fitoverfortymom
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I'm baking a sweet potato today, but scraping out the insides and just eating those, NOT the skin--obviously. Having trouble trusting the diary entry for cooked (I'm not adding oil or anything).
What entry would you use? I could weigh it before/after cooking, but if I'm not eating the skin, how is that accurate?
What entry would you use? I could weigh it before/after cooking, but if I'm not eating the skin, how is that accurate?
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In these types of cases (when I don't trust the entries) I look it up on the USDA Food Composition Database. They have an entry for "Sweet potato, cooked, baked in skin, flesh, without salt"...
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Edited to 'What he said.'
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Beat me to it, and with a pic to boot! 2 -
THAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANK YOU. I don't know why I never remember to look there. I always think of it for raw foods.3
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Why not eat the skin? Lots of nice nutrients.4
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lynn_glenmont wrote: »
Lots of people eat sweet potato skins, just like white potato skins. They're good (to some of us). Almost no one eats egg shells.
No one has to eat sweet potato skins if they don't enjoy them . . . but I'm questioning "I'm baking a sweet potato today, but scraping out the insides and just eating those, NOT the skin--obviously."6 -
If you have something against the skin, why not peel it first, weigh it, then cook it?4
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lynn_glenmont wrote: »
Lots of people eat sweet potato skins, just like white potato skins. They're good (to some of us). Almost no one eats egg shells.
No one has to eat sweet potato skins if they don't enjoy them . . . but I'm questioning "I'm baking a sweet potato today, but scraping out the insides and just eating those, NOT the skin--obviously."
If you like the skins, go ahead and eat them. In my experience, the percentage of people who eat them is pretty small. As in, I don't remember ever seeing someone eat the skin. They're much thicker and tougher than white potato skins -- I wonder if we're talking about the same vegetable or the same variety of sweet potato. I eat white potato skins, apple skins, pear skins, peach skins, and I can't imagine someone enjoying a sweet potato skin. I think it's telling that none of the entries in the USDA database for sweet potatoes include the skin (the one for prepared from raw all say either "flesh only" or "without skin" and I've never seen frozen or canned sweet potatoes packed with the skin). It's clearly not something that their data tell them gets eaten much.
Are you in the U.S.? If you're in another country, maybe you get a different variety of sweet potato with a thinner skin?5 -
lynn_glenmont wrote: »lynn_glenmont wrote: »
Lots of people eat sweet potato skins, just like white potato skins. They're good (to some of us). Almost no one eats egg shells.
No one has to eat sweet potato skins if they don't enjoy them . . . but I'm questioning "I'm baking a sweet potato today, but scraping out the insides and just eating those, NOT the skin--obviously."
If you like the skins, go ahead and eat them. In my experience, the percentage of people who eat them is pretty small. As in, I don't remember ever seeing someone eat the skin. They're much thicker and tougher than white potato skins -- I wonder if we're talking about the same vegetable or the same variety of sweet potato. I eat white potato skins, apple skins, pear skins, peach skins, and I can't imagine someone enjoying a sweet potato skin. I think it's telling that none of the entries in the USDA database for sweet potatoes include the skin (the one for prepared from raw all say either "flesh only" or "without skin" and I've never seen frozen or canned sweet potatoes packed with the skin). It's clearly not something that their data tell them gets eaten much.
Are you in the U.S.? If you're in another country, maybe you get a different variety of sweet potato with a thinner skin?
I eat sweet potato skins all the time. And I didn't read the comment as a rude suggestion that there was anything innately wrong with the OP for not eating them, just that it seemed weird that we should “obviously” assume they wouldn't be eating them.5 -
I eat them all the time as well... though I also eat shrimp tails and shells2
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Yeah. I don't think I've ever not eaten the skin of a sweet potato? It's good.4
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Wynterbourne wrote: »lynn_glenmont wrote: »lynn_glenmont wrote: »
Lots of people eat sweet potato skins, just like white potato skins. They're good (to some of us). Almost no one eats egg shells.
No one has to eat sweet potato skins if they don't enjoy them . . . but I'm questioning "I'm baking a sweet potato today, but scraping out the insides and just eating those, NOT the skin--obviously."
If you like the skins, go ahead and eat them. In my experience, the percentage of people who eat them is pretty small. As in, I don't remember ever seeing someone eat the skin. They're much thicker and tougher than white potato skins -- I wonder if we're talking about the same vegetable or the same variety of sweet potato. I eat white potato skins, apple skins, pear skins, peach skins, and I can't imagine someone enjoying a sweet potato skin. I think it's telling that none of the entries in the USDA database for sweet potatoes include the skin (the one for prepared from raw all say either "flesh only" or "without skin" and I've never seen frozen or canned sweet potatoes packed with the skin). It's clearly not something that their data tell them gets eaten much.
Are you in the U.S.? If you're in another country, maybe you get a different variety of sweet potato with a thinner skin?
I eat sweet potato skins all the time. And I didn't read the comment as a rude suggestion that there was anything innately wrong with the OP for not eating them, just that it seemed weird that we should “obviously” assume they wouldn't be eating them.
You read it how I meant it.
And I'm in the US, eating several different varieties of sweet potatoes we can get here, but mostly the conventional orange flesh, brown-orange skin ones. I nearly always eat the skin, unless I'm making something that requires an ultra-smooth puree.
Not eating the skin seemed odd to me. I grant that the canned ones don't have skins but (1) lots of commercial canned foods are odd, and (2) I don't think I've ever bought a canned sweet potato. Sheltered life, I guess.
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lynn_glenmont wrote: »lynn_glenmont wrote: »
Lots of people eat sweet potato skins, just like white potato skins. They're good (to some of us). Almost no one eats egg shells.
No one has to eat sweet potato skins if they don't enjoy them . . . but I'm questioning "I'm baking a sweet potato today, but scraping out the insides and just eating those, NOT the skin--obviously."
If you like the skins, go ahead and eat them. In my experience, the percentage of people who eat them is pretty small. As in, I don't remember ever seeing someone eat the skin. They're much thicker and tougher than white potato skins -- I wonder if we're talking about the same vegetable or the same variety of sweet potato. I eat white potato skins, apple skins, pear skins, peach skins, and I can't imagine someone enjoying a sweet potato skin. I think it's telling that none of the entries in the USDA database for sweet potatoes include the skin (the one for prepared from raw all say either "flesh only" or "without skin" and I've never seen frozen or canned sweet potatoes packed with the skin). It's clearly not something that their data tell them gets eaten much.
Are you in the U.S.? If you're in another country, maybe you get a different variety of sweet potato with a thinner skin?
That’s weird. I eat the skin. I thought most people did.7 -
lynn_glenmont wrote: »lynn_glenmont wrote: »
Lots of people eat sweet potato skins, just like white potato skins. They're good (to some of us). Almost no one eats egg shells.
No one has to eat sweet potato skins if they don't enjoy them . . . but I'm questioning "I'm baking a sweet potato today, but scraping out the insides and just eating those, NOT the skin--obviously."
If you like the skins, go ahead and eat them. In my experience, the percentage of people who eat them is pretty small. As in, I don't remember ever seeing someone eat the skin. They're much thicker and tougher than white potato skins -- I wonder if we're talking about the same vegetable or the same variety of sweet potato. I eat white potato skins, apple skins, pear skins, peach skins, and I can't imagine someone enjoying a sweet potato skin. I think it's telling that none of the entries in the USDA database for sweet potatoes include the skin (the one for prepared from raw all say either "flesh only" or "without skin" and I've never seen frozen or canned sweet potatoes packed with the skin). It's clearly not something that their data tell them gets eaten much.
Are you in the U.S.? If you're in another country, maybe you get a different variety of sweet potato with a thinner skin?
With the exception of this thread, clearly. (another skin eater, just to skew the % towards skin eaters even more) 2 -
I didn't know eating sweet potato skin was a thing. Oh the drama.5
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So how do all you skin eaters log them, given that the USDA nutrient database cannot imagine the idea that anyone would be interested in the nutritional data for the skin?
And, @Kalex1975 , I find the idea of eating shrimp tails and shells much less off-putting than the idea of eating sweet potato skins. I mean, it's not something I do intentionally, but if I miss a bit of the shell or a couple legs when I'm peeling them, I don't spit them out.
I frequently eat edamame pods (intentionally) -- they're nice and chewy. But sweet potato skins? Nope.3 -
lynn_glenmont wrote: »So how do all you skin eaters log them, given that the USDA nutrient database cannot imagine the idea that anyone would be interested in the nutritional data for the skin?
And, @Kalex1975 , I find the idea of eating shrimp tails and shells much less off-putting than the idea of eating sweet potato skins. I mean, it's not something I do intentionally, but if I miss a bit of the shell or a couple legs when I'm peeling them, I don't spit them out.
I frequently eat edamame pods (intentionally) -- they're nice and chewy. But sweet potato skins? Nope.
11507, sweet potato, raw, unprepared.
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I mean, I used to not eat potato skins when I was a kid, but there was a lot of things I didn’t eat as a picky kid. I especially eat the sweet potato skins as I can find the innards almost too mushy and like the texture added by the skin. To each their own, as usual, I just didn’t realize people didn’t even know you can eat them.1
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Just log sweet potato, weigh before baking, weigh everything that is left over after eating them. substract. Potatoes don't lose an awful lot of moisture when baking them.1
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Does it not also vary on how the sweet potato is cooked?
I cooked sliced sweet potatoes recently (sweet potato crisps). They weighed 350g before and 108g after. I recorded them as 108g but think that’s wrong, as moisture loss would have been far greater, than cooking a whole potato. Anyone with any ideas on that ones, please?0 -
HelsBels_76 wrote: »Does it not also vary on how the sweet potato is cooked?
I’m cooked sliced sweet potatoes recently (sweet potato crisps) They weighed 350g before and 108g after. I recorded them as 108g but think that’s wrong, as moister loss would have been far greater?? Anyone with any ideas on that ones, please?
Use the entry for raw and log 350g.2 -
fitoverfortymom wrote: »I didn't know eating sweet potato skin was a thing. Oh the drama.
Look what you've done! This will have to be moved to debates now
I don't eat the sweet potato skin, either. Sometimes I eat the skin on baked russet potatoes, sometimes I don't. I also always peel my carrots
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I've never thought of eating the sweet potato skin but now I have to try it. Don't know why I never thought of eating it.
I think the skin is the best part of a baked russet potato - I always save part of whatever topping I'm using specifically for the skins.2 -
livingleanlivingclean wrote: »lynn_glenmont wrote: »So how do all you skin eaters log them, given that the USDA nutrient database cannot imagine the idea that anyone would be interested in the nutritional data for the skin?
And, @Kalex1975 , I find the idea of eating shrimp tails and shells much less off-putting than the idea of eating sweet potato skins. I mean, it's not something I do intentionally, but if I miss a bit of the shell or a couple legs when I'm peeling them, I don't spit them out.
I frequently eat edamame pods (intentionally) -- they're nice and chewy. But sweet potato skins? Nope.
11507, sweet potato, raw, unprepared.
Ditto. Weighed before cooked. Obviously.0 -
Just make sure you scrub the he** out of those potatoes before baking and eating
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Never occured to me not to eat the skin, is delicious.3
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For *kitten* and giggles, when I baked my sweet potato today, I decided to eat the skin. In my head o thought it would be tough and inedible. In reality, it is sweet with a nice chew. I guess ya learn something new every day!11
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I’ll have to try the sweet potato skins next time. They look so leathery that I’ve never tried them. If I read this thread 10 minutes sooner, I could have tried them tonight.2
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Cooking makes a difference, they aren't any more leathery than potato skins, IME.0
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