Potatoes can fatten our usual fried potatoes, rice covered with shredded potatoes, French fries, potato cakes and so on. Although these are delicious, they are high in calories and fat. For example, rice covered with shredded potatoes, which everyone loves, is actually a staple food (per 100 grams of calories 173 calories, the carbohydrate content exceeds 1 1%). Paired with rice, it is equivalent to eating two staple foods at the same time, which is easy to get fat.
For example, we often eat potatoes and barbecue, a plate of 500 grams, its calories can reach 900 calories, which is equivalent to half of the calories needed by a normal-weight adult male every day. Think about how easy it is to exceed the standard if potatoes are eaten as vegetables.
Let's introduce potatoes in an all-round way. There are several aliases, potato, yam egg, sweet potato, potato, Dutch potato and Java potato. It is the fourth largest food crop in the world. It is a staple food in many places and is widely planted in China.
Nutritional value of potatoes Potatoes contain 17.2% carbohydrate, 2% protein, 0.2% fat and 0.7% dietary fiber, in addition to various vitamins and minerals, especially vitamin C, which is very high. As a staple food, it is more nutritious than polished rice and white flour. According to the description of staple food in the Dietary Guide for China Residents, adults need 250~400g of staple food in a normal day, of which 100g is the best (potato, sweet potato).
The research on potatoes and obesity has actually been done internationally. Potatoes were cooked as the staple food, and related experiments were carried out. There are no clear data in several experiments, which shows that potatoes help to lose weight.
How to eat potatoes to lose weight? When eating staple food, you can steam potatoes and rice as staple food, or stew potatoes and subtract their calories from other staple foods after eating. Potatoes are rich in dietary fiber, vitamin C and potassium, which can adjust the three highs and make people feel full.
We don't recommend eating mashed potatoes, because mashed potatoes are easy to digest and absorb, and the feeling of fullness is not so good. It is also not recommended to eat fried shredded potatoes and chips, because potatoes are easy to paste, and more oil is needed when frying, which invisibly increases the calories.
Potato cooking, on the contrary, the fleshy potato is a typical rape sucker. Everyone who cooks knows that one of the secrets of cooking potatoes is to use oil in many ways. Moreover, from the above analysis of the nutritional value of potatoes, potatoes, as vegetables, have too high carbohydrates and less other nutrients (compared with vegetables), which will help to gain weight.
In the frying process of common French fries and chips on the market, a lot of vitamins in potatoes are lost, but the oil is greatly increased. The result is a large increase in energy, but no feeling of fullness. At this time, potato noodles become fattening food.
To sum up, potatoes are not reliable for losing weight. Potatoes can be considered to gain weight. If you want to lose weight, you must have an overall plan and strictly implement it. It is unrealistic to lose weight by one thing alone. Worse than diet pills and surgery.