The Goodness of Potatoes

The potato is a food that is rich in nutrients and is highly recommended as part of everyone’s daily diet. Despite what a lot of people may think, potatoes are not fattening. A 6-ounce potato has only 110 calories. (The same amount of rice or pasta has 400 calories!) A 6-ounce potato has no fat and absolutely no cholesterol, but it does have 23 grams of carbohydrates, 3 grams of protein, and practically every vitamin except vitamin A.

According to the United States Department of Agriculture, if a person’s entire diet consisted of potatoes, he or she would get all the riboflavin (vitamin B2), one and a half times the iron, three to four times the thiamin (B1) and niacin (B3), and more than ten times the amount of vitamin C that the body needs.

Potatoes have a pleasant bland flavor that can be enhanced with grated cheese, crumbled bacon, chopped onion, chives, dill, or parsley, cream, but-ter; garlic, a bit of grated horseradish, or various spices. Potatoes can be used to add body to a number of dishes, including meat loaves and fish cakes, soups and stews. They can even be used to make bread and scones.

Naturally Potatoes® make it so simple, and so fast, to prepare potato dishes that everyone should eat potatoes, at least at one meal, every day.

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