Potatoes, a kind of food that is most often mistaken for vegetables, are the most commonly eaten "vegetables" by American teenagers. Among the vegetables that teenagers eat the most every day, 365,438+0.2% are potato products and related products (including French fries and chips). This is the discovery of a dietary survey conducted by Louisiana State University in the United States for teenagers aged 13- 18.

Another survey by the United States Department of Agriculture also shows that potatoes are the vegetables that Americans eat the most, and lettuce ranks second.

Although the proportion of potatoes in Taiwan Province Province, where rice and flour are the staple foods, is not high, many people still mistakenly think that it is a vegetable, or think that it should be a very healthy food (after all, it is not very sweet), so more and more potato-related products appear in the market, from popular French fries, French fries that must be seen in fast food restaurants to baked potatoes in night markets.

What kind of food is potato? Is the nutritional value good? Is it suitable for losing weight? Now let's talk about the longest food-potato, which is very similar to sweet potato in English.

[Decoding] How much do you know about potato nutrition?

1. Potatoes are staple food (starch food), not vegetable food!

According to the nutritional data of100g potato, basically, whether a food belongs to staple food, meat, fruit, vegetable or oil is judged by its main nutritional components. If the sugar content of food is high, it belongs to the staple food; if it is high in protein, it belongs to the meat, and so on.

Among the three main nutrients, protein, fat and sugar, potato has the highest starch content, so potato should be a staple food, not a vegetable. (Note: Every 1 00g of vegetables contains protein1g and 5g of sugar. Obviously, potatoes do not belong to vegetables.