I was reading a Women's Health article on potatoes and was surprised at some of the things I have learned. Researchers are saying that eating potatoes is just as important as filling up on more colorful produce. Read through all of their interesting findings and see if you can't start finding ways to incorporate more potatoes into your diet!
In the past, spuds haven't been a vegetable that received a lot of love. Researchers in nutrition science are now wanting all of us to know that we definitely shouldn't avoid them. They are finding that eating potatoes is just as important as filling up on the other, more colorful veggies, according to a new supplement published in the journal Advances in Nutrition.
Researchers gathered at Purdue University to bust the myth that white veggies--potatoes in particular--aren't as nutritious as colored ones. While potatoes get a bad rap for being starchy, they are also filled with vital nutrients, says supplement coauthor Connie Weaver, PhD, head of the department of nutrition science at Purdue University. One medium baked potato provides 11 percent of your recommended daily fiber intake and 12 percent of your recommended daily magnesium intake. What's more, potatoes are the highest dietary source of potassium.
It's not hat you have to replace other vegetables with potatoes, says Weaver. But since people in the U.S. generally don't get enough fiber, potassium and magnesium according to the National Institutes of Health, you don't want to nix them from your diet either.
The bottom line: when it comes to which veggies you eat, it's not one versus the other, says Bonnie Taub-Dix, MA, RD, CDN, author of Read It Before You Eat It and nutrition expert in New York.
"The important thing to emphasize is variety," she says. "One fruit or vegetable doesn't give us everything we need--it's the blend of colors that count, and that includes potatoes."
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