Potato Council
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Potato Nutrition
These values represent an average 175g serving of boiled new potatoes in their skins.
Pick up a potato and you're holding an amazingly nutrient dense food! Calories in potatoes are low, they're naturally fat-free, bursting with vitamins and minerals, contain absolutely no cholesterol and when served with their skins are a great source of fibre.
Independent nutritionists and dietary researchers recommend potatoes as the perfect base for a balanced diet. Because potatoes are packed full of nutrients for your brain and body, they can make you look, feel and even think great!
Potato Nutrition Facts click below to find out what vitamins and nutrition you get from a potato:
- Vitamin C
- Vitamin B
- Vitamin B6
- Folate (Folic Acid)
- No cholesterol
- Potassium
- Magnesium
- Fibre
- Carbohydrate
- Copper + Zinc
- Low in fat
- Low in calories
Dieticians recommend potatoes as an easily digestible source of carbohydrate - the body’s main fuel - which your muscles need every minute of the day. The big advantage of getting your carbohydrates from potatoes rather than pasta or rice is that you also get a treasure trove of other vital nutrients but no fat. Rice contains 13x as much fat, while pasta has 5x as much!
The Glycaemic Index (GI) rates foods - including carbohydrates - for their ability to increase glucose in the blood. However, GI research is preliminary and variable and the practicality of using the index for meal planning is controversial. It’s based on looking at the effect of a person eating one item of food at a time. In daily life we constantly eat combinations of foods at every meal. The American Diabetes Association made an extensive review of the research in this area and concluded that it is the amount of carbohydrate not the particular food items that determines the total blood glucose response. (source: US potato site)