Do you eat the skin on your sweet potato?

Noreenmarie1234
Noreenmarie1234 Posts: 7,492 Member
edited 5:54PM in Food and Nutrition
I got into a debate whether it's more common to eat the skin or not when you have a baked sweet potato. I have always eaten the skin, but my friend was so amazed that I ate the skin and said shes "never seen anyone do that or heard of anyone doing that in her life."

So I am wondering what you guys on here do. Do you eat the skin or just the inside? If you don't, do you on a regular potato?
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  • pkweier
    pkweier Posts: 349 Member
    I eat the whole thing
  • manderson27
    manderson27 Posts: 3,510 Member
    Yes absolutely, there is a lot of goodness in there :)
  • angel7472
    angel7472 Posts: 317 Member
    yes, skin has tons of vitamins :)
  • andreaen
    andreaen Posts: 365 Member
    YES! I love the skin :heart: And it is full of fiber and vitamins. Just make sure to clean it as dirt can contain some nasty heavy metals and bad stuff that you don't want to eat
  • LifeWithPie
    LifeWithPie Posts: 552 Member
    Nope
  • corinasue1143
    corinasue1143 Posts: 7,464 Member
    Yes, but I think sweet potato skin is kind of chewy. Love white potato skin, and red, and Yukon gold.
  • Idontcareyoupick
    Idontcareyoupick Posts: 2,854 Member
    Yep
  • Jthanmyfitnesspal
    Jthanmyfitnesspal Posts: 3,522 Member
    Not intentionally (although a bit here and there is fine by me). The sweet potato "flesh" is very nutritious in itself and the skin seems papery to me. All in all, a great food!

    I eat the skins of russet and red bliss potatoes, however. (But I eat them less frequently overall.)
  • psychod787
    psychod787 Posts: 4,099 Member
    yep
  • Nikion901
    Nikion901 Posts: 2,467 Member
    yep
  • kam26001
    kam26001 Posts: 2,794 Member
    edited March 2018
    No, I don't eat the skin. I'm too lazy to scrub and clean my potatoes. I want the calories and the buttload of beta-carotene.
    I do love mashed potatoes though with the skin involved. More people should prepare it that way.
  • bluets2011
    bluets2011 Posts: 241 Member
    Yes! Love the fried skin too much
  • LadyElectron
    LadyElectron Posts: 43 Member
    I’ve tried eating sweet potato skin but I don’t like it. It gets tough and chewy and doesn’t have a nice flavor like red or russet potato skin. I’ll get my fiber elsewhere thanks lol.
  • LivingtheLeanDream
    LivingtheLeanDream Posts: 13,342 Member
    Yep, I eat the whole thing :smile:
  • crabbybrianna
    crabbybrianna Posts: 344 Member
    No. I don’t like it at all, it ruins the taste and texture of the good stuff on the inside. I don’t care how many nutrients it has or how much fibre it has, I’m not eating it. I don’t like regular potato skins either! It’s like eating dirty paper. :confounded:
  • Sp1tfire
    Sp1tfire Posts: 1,120 Member
    yep
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,226 Member
    Yes, absolutely: I enjoy it, plus there's extra fiber and nutrients!

    The only time I don't is if I need very smooth sweet potato puree for a recipe. Even then, since they're much easier to peel after cooking, I'll scrub 'em up, roast, and mostly likely eat the skin on its own as a cook's treat. ;)

    There was another thread about this recently . . . we converted some new people to skin-eating!
  • pomegranatecloud
    pomegranatecloud Posts: 812 Member
    Yes
  • Birder165
    Birder165 Posts: 484 Member
    I'm a baked sweet potato skin eater. I scrub them and cut off any gnarly bits before baking, of course.
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    I do not eat sweet potato skin off of a baked sweet potato.
  • madwells1
    madwells1 Posts: 510 Member
    Only if its crispy on a baked sweet potato. Other than that, for some reason I just can't do it. The dog likes it though :D
  • dknight36
    dknight36 Posts: 182 Member
    I eat it all!
  • Wynterbourne
    Wynterbourne Posts: 2,225 Member
    Absolutely.
  • Steelpit202
    Steelpit202 Posts: 51 Member
    The only part of a sweet potato I don't eat are the ends.
  • vegmebuff
    vegmebuff Posts: 31,389 Member
    I prefer it with it...therefore I make sure it's an organic one though
  • wingspan222
    wingspan222 Posts: 1 Member
    Absolutely!
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,093 Member
    Nope. Nasty taste. Nasty texture.
  • positivepowers
    positivepowers Posts: 902 Member
    I don't eat potatoes much anymore but when I did, I ate the skin, both white and sweet potatoes. I was told by a Registered Dietician that most of the nutrition lies in the skin.
  • goatg
    goatg Posts: 1,399 Member
    Absolutely. It contains a ton of nutrients. I do this whenever possible.
    A lot of our ideas about food are culturally framed.

    I’ll eat orange skin, squash rind, I’ll toss moderate amounts of more bitter peels into smoothies.
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