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    Do you eat the skin on your sweet potato?

    Posts: 7,492 Member
    edited November 2024 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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    • Posts: 349 Member
      I eat the whole thing
    • Posts: 3,511 Member
      Yes absolutely, there is a lot of goodness in there :)
    • Posts: 317 Member
      yes, skin has tons of vitamins :)
    • 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
    • Posts: 552 Member
      Nope
    • Posts: 7,460 Member
      Yes, but I think sweet potato skin is kind of chewy. Love white potato skin, and red, and Yukon gold.
    • Posts: 2,854 Member
      Yep
    • Posts: 3,559 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.)
    • Posts: 4,099 Member
      yep
    • Posts: 2,467 Member
      yep
    • 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.
    • Posts: 241 Member
      Yes! Love the fried skin too much
    • 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.
    • Posts: 13,342 Member
      Yep, I eat the whole thing :smile:
    • 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:
    • Posts: 1,120 Member
      yep
    • Posts: 35,698 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!
    • Posts: 812 Member
      Yes
    • Posts: 484 Member
      I'm a baked sweet potato skin eater. I scrub them and cut off any gnarly bits before baking, of course.
    • Posts: 8,423 Member
      I do not eat sweet potato skin off of a baked sweet potato.
    • 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
    • Posts: 182 Member
      I eat it all!
    • Posts: 2,235 Member
      Absolutely.
    • Posts: 51 Member
      The only part of a sweet potato I don't eat are the ends.
    • Posts: 31,389 Member
      I prefer it with it...therefore I make sure it's an organic one though
    • Posts: 1 Member
      Absolutely!
    • Posts: 10,138 Member
      Nope. Nasty taste. Nasty texture.
    • 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.
    • 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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