Often feared for their starch content, potatoes are actually a low-calorie food, rich in vitamins and mineral salts, which helps to drain excess toxins and liquids. Here are the nutritional values
Baked, boiled, pan-fried, fried, roasted: there are many ways to use them potatoes, a versatile food all to discover. Also perfect for i celiac and gluten intolerant.
Energy source
Many try to stay away from potatoes (especially if they are struggling with slimming diets) for their content starches. But the potato is actually a low-calorie food. Just think of it for every 100 grams of raw potatoes they are hardly counted 79 kilocalories. It is clear, therefore, that much depends on the type of preparation or seasoning: le potatoes fried, for example, I am a high calorie food, to avoid when you want to lose weight or get rid of cellulite. Boiled or steamedinstead, potatoes are an excellent dish that can provide power the body and, at the same time, help weight loss and drainage of toxins and liquids in excess. The merit is of the potassium, a mineral whose potatoes are very rich.
Vitamins and proteins
Their content protein it is modest, yet the potatoes, originating in Latin America, they promote a sense of satiety. Also, potatoes are rich in vitamins of group B, vitamin C and mineral salts such as copper, iron, chromium and magnesium, while the carotene, contained in discreet quantity, determines, according to its minor or greater presence, the coloration more or less intense yellow.
Never eat them raw
A rule to remember absolutely when talking about potatoes is to never eat them raw. They can cause head pains and fever. This is because in potatoes it is contained (in a small part) the solanine, a toxic alkaloid also present in eggplants, which however can be reduced by more than 50% through the process of cooking. In this regard it is useful to keep the tubers in unlit rooms. periodically removing the buds which tend to form on the surface: this is where the presence of solanine is concentrated.
Not just gluten-free
Easily digestible and assimilable, the potatoes are finally gluten and cholesterol free. They are made up of 77% water, they contain good doses of carbohydrates complex, favor the increase of serotonin cerebral (and therefore improve mood) and are able to neutralize gastric juices. Not by chance are often recommended to those who suffer from ulcers gastric and heartburn.
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