Potatoes are a staple for bodybuilding energy and offer higher potassium levels than rice. Learn the healthiest way to bake a potato at high altitudes, how to remove excess starch, and find nutritional facts for Yukon Gold and red varieties.
The way you cook potatoes for potato salad can make or break this summer classic. Boil them too long and you may get a mushy salad with the texture of mashed potatoes. Skimp on the cooking and your potatoes can turn out as crisp as celery.
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Potatoes have a bad reputation for being high in carbohydrates and low in nutrition. While versions fried in trans-fat-laden oil or doused with cheese and butter might not be the healthiest options, a baked potato can be part of a healthy diet.
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Although a sweet potato offers more fiber, vitamin A and vitamin C, a plain baked potato is not a nutritional zero. Both count towards your daily servings of vegetables and can be part of a healthy diet. Learn to prepare these vegetables in healthy ways to maximize their nutrition.
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While mashed potatoes are not complicated to make, the process may be time-consuming. Instant mashed potato flakes, made from dehydrated, cooked potatoes, speed up the process. You can reconstitute them with water or milk, or use them as an ingredient in breads, gnocchi or gravies.
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Potatoes are nutritious vegetables that provide vitamin C, fiber and some B vitamins. When you fry them or prepared them with large amounts of cheese and cream, the added saturated fat and calories of these cooking methods eclipses potatoes' health benefits.
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