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  2. Why nutrition experts don't recommend eating raw potatoes - AOL

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    Raw potatoes do have more vitamin C than cooked potatoes, Shelley Balls, a registered dietitian and nutritionist for Consumer Health Digest, tells USA TODAY. "When boiling potatoes, vitamin C ...

  3. Can You Eat Raw Potatoes? Our Test Kitchen Doesn’t ... - AOL

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    Get the answer, then stick around for 2 signs that you’ve cooked your spuds to a safe temperature.

  4. What are the healthiest potatoes? These 2 types have ... - AOL

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    Potatoes — particularly the skin — also contain fiber, which is helpful for gut health, heart health and weight loss, Rizzo says. Surprisingly, potatoes also provide protein , she adds.

  5. Resistant starch - Wikipedia

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    Resistant starch (RS) is starch, including its degradation products, that escapes from digestion in the small intestine of healthy individuals. [1] [2] Resistant starch occurs naturally in foods, but it can also be added as part of dried raw foods, or used as an additive in manufactured foods. [3]

  6. Potato - Wikipedia

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    The potato (/ p ə ˈ t eɪ t oʊ /) is a starchy tuberous vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world. Potatoes are underground tubers of the plant Solanum tuberosum, a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Wild potato species can be found from the southern United States to southern Chile.

  7. Potato cooking - Wikipedia

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    In the raw potato, the starch is mainly in the form of resistant starch, so called because it resists digestive enzymes such as amylase. Under the effect of heat, around 50 °C, the amylose swells and causes the starch grains to burst, which "gelatinize" and lose their "resistant" character. However, when the preparation is subsequently cooled ...

  8. Here's What Happens to Your Body if You Eat Potatoes ... - AOL

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    If you want to keep your potato eating as healthy as possible, Amidor says to bake, broil or air fry them instead of deep frying them. “Frying adds a lot of unnecessary fat,” she explains ...

  9. Staple food - Wikipedia

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    Various types of potatoes Unprocessed seeds of spelt, a historically important staple food Harvesting Sago pith to produce the starch in Papua New Guinea. A staple food, food staple, or simply staple, is a food that is eaten often and in such quantities that it constitutes a dominant portion of a standard diet for an individual or a population group, supplying a large fraction of energy needs ...