Are potatoes good for you?

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Are potatoes healthy for you like nutritionally? I mean they are a vegetable after all? I'm not talking French fries and loaded baked potatoes... but I recently bought some of those tiny little red potatoes I boil them and then season them with a dash of olive oil and lemon juice.. I understand this is clearly better for me than fries but should I just stop eating potatoes completely or is there some GOOD to potatoes. I just don't understand if they're a positive food or negative food .. ?

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I know red, yellow,yams, and sweet potatoes are good for you. I would purchase all of these but buy organic!!

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I think most foods have value in moderation for most people. Potatoes have a lot of vitamins in the skin and lots of nutrients and carbs. Are they the best every day choice? Perhaps not, but a few times a week sounds good.

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I love potatoes so I hope they do! Lol

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They're not really a vegetable vegetable. They're not the worst thing but obviously moderation and all that jazz.

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There are definitely worse things for you. When I was transitioning to vegan is I ate a ton of potatoes and never gained anything. My blood tests were absolutely remarkable, the doctors were shocked!

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They are a starch and loaded with carbs. They are probably they worst of all the vegetables.

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Like everything, they're good in moderation. 
Although they are technically a vegetable, I classify them as a starch when I'm cooking. In many ways they are healthier than rice, pasta... but don't hold a candle to other veggies like broccoli,  peas, spinach... 
There was a test that came out recently linking potatoes before conception to gestational diabetes but I don't think that was a terribly scientific test! 
I'd say your best bit is to have them once in a while and substitute something else out that might have less nutritional value (potatoes have some protien, iron, fibre... and are low ish in calories) and you'll be fine :)

Are potatoes good for you?

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