Amazing Potato

 

Potatoes are amazing vegetables from the solonaceae or night shade family. These include tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers. If allowed to grow, the leafy part of the potato may result in fruit which should not be eaten because it's a form of solanine, a poisonous alkaloid

I love the way the Swedes eat their baked  potato.
The peel is supposed to have a high nutritive value, rich in potassium, Vit A,B,C, calcium, carbohydrates, iron ,  salts, .riboflavin,B6, copper, manganese and dietary fibre and is good for cardiovascular disease and cancer.

Nutrients in
Potatoes
1.00 each baked (173.00 grams)

Nutrient%Daily Value

vitamin C27.6%

vitamin B627%

potassium26.4%

tryptophan21.8%

manganese19%

fiber15.2%

Calories (160)8%

The juice from a raw potato has anti inflamatory properties and helps with acid conditions in the stomach and thus ulcers. They are antioxydants and broccoli has a run for its money alongside it in phytochemicals.

They promote
carotenoids, flavonoids, and caffeic acid, as well as unique tuber storage proteins, such as patatin, which exhibit activity against free radicals.

Agricultural Research Service plant geneticist Roy Navarre has identified 60 different kinds of phytochemicals and vitamins in the skins and flesh of 100 wild and commercially grown potatoes. Analysis of Red and Norkotah potatoes revealed that these spuds' phenolic content rivals that of broccoli, spinach and Brussels sprouts, and includes flavonoids with protective activity against cardiovascular disease, respiratory problems and certain cancers and they also lower blood pressure.
Eat them steamed baked or sauteed.

So eat and grow potatoes,  chemical free in your gardens.
Eat them with their skins or juice them.
They are good for you.

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