The Healthiest Type of Potato
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- Are yellow-fleshed potatoes healthier than white? And, what about the glycoalkaloid toxins?
This is the last in a five-video series on potatoes. If you missed any of the others, see:
• Do Potatoes Increase the Risk of Diabetes? (nutritionfacts...)
• Do Potatoes Increase the Risk of High Blood Pressure and Death? (nutritionfacts...)
• Glycemic Index of Potatoes: Why You Should Chill and Reheat Them (nutritionfacts...)
• How to Reduce the Glycemic Impact of Potatoes (nutritionfacts...)
The original potato webinar recording is now up for viewing. This recording includes all of the potato videos, with brief intros from Dr. Greger, as well as a Q&A. View it here: nutritionfacts....
I previously highlighted purple potatoes in Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Purple Potatoes (nutritionfacts....
You may also be interested in The Best Way to Cook Sweet Potatoes (nutritionfacts....
The video on berries I mentioned is Getting Starch to Take the Path of Most Resistance (nutritionfacts....
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The original potato webinar recording is now up for viewing. This recording includes all of the potato videos, with brief intros from Dr. Greger, as well as a Q&A. View it here: nutritionfacts.org/webinar/are-white-potatoes-bad-for-you/.
Does storing raw potatoes in the fridge and then proceeding cooking them at a later date still lower the glycemic index amount by 30-40%?
Here’s a great mash potato cooking hack. Per volume of white spuds, add a quarter of sweet potato, half a teaspoon of turmeric and mustard. Voila, super smooth, tasty antioxidant rich mash!
Maybe add a little black pepper to make the turmeric more effective.
Great call!
@@vinwillcock612 and ginger
Clever!
I eat potatoes mostly in soups which include other vegetables and never worried about it. Blood sugar levels still fine at age 60.
Purple Potatoes sound great. But I've never seen a Purple Potato in my local small town supermarket, and no doubt if they did show up, they would be drastically more expensive than bulk normal potatoes. But we do have yellow and it's good to know those are a bit better than white.
well....I suppose there is always Amazon or some other outlet that could sell and ship them to you in bulk.....and if you think about it.....although probably more expensive, perhaps a small price to pay for good health...... : D
They are more expensive, but they make a crazy-looking soup! Worth every penny.
Grow it! I started growing in pots. Super easy.
Pruple yams are very cheap and readily available at Asian markets
Or check your local farmers market.
Purple potatoes are truly one of my favorite foods. They taste just like a white potato but have health benefits like berries. Much easier to incorporate than sweet potatoes for me too
They have a very different taste and i dont lik them like many peoples especially when eating a lot of them.
I am assuming here, that the healthfulness of berries is not only contributed by anthocyanins, so I wouldn't /replace/ them with potatoes in your diet.
@@Woppettier right, but if mashed potatoes can now be a health food I’m all for it
Mashed potatoes can replace 25% of the flour in a bread recipe so a bread made with purple potatoes ought to be less inflammatory.
Just eat the potatoes with lentil or beans. It's the perfect way to blunt the sugar surge.
Yeah. It's so annoying that they talk about (at least where I live) an expensive and difficult to find solution when there's a cheap simple one. On the occasion grocery stores near me have purple potatoes they're crazy expensive and honestly a purplish-grey on the inside. I really question their actual pigment content.
I add lentils to my rice, potatoes, quinoa, anything; need that fiber for my poop to stay on point
@@mcfaddenhall2896You shouldn’t be annoyed with the truth. You’re free to eat whatever you want and white potatoes are much better than junk food for example, but the truth is that colourful potatoes are healthier. Also sweet potatoes are healthier
I personally don’t remember ever seeing a purple potato at all, and I assume it’s expensive too, but it doesn’t change the facts.
Purple potatoes are unfortunately hard to find here and tend to be fairly expensive compared to white or yellow, which can be had at well under a Euro per kilogram. For most of us tripling or quadrupling our food expenses isn't really an option
I just buy them occasionally, mostly eat red potatoes. Purple potatoes are just the ultimate food, worth the price occasionally :)
The other downside is the poor culinary quality of many coloured ones when boiled. Taste and structure are not the best. (I am a picky potato eater and growing nowadays my own) But I have a feeling the plant breeding is bringing us better varieties because there is more and more demand for these.
False. The absolute price of purple potatoes is cheaper than most other foods. It is just more expensive than white potatoes. Purple potatoes have the antioxidant content of berries but are a fraction of the price of berries.
The phenomenon is similar to here in the States. Here’s my suggestion: continue to consume your white potatoes, but with the meal, consume something sour, e.g., a shot of vinegar or olive oil and balsamic; or consume a glass of unsweetened Mexican Jamaica. Vinegar you likely already have and balsamic is always cheap. As for Jamaica, the blossoms of dried hibiscus flowers are cheap and plentiful (I suspect they can be had for four USD for a medium sized bag) and each bag can make many many pitchers’ worth of Jamaica which is absolutely suffused with the same pigments as purple sweet potatoes. Problem solved.
@@jt4369 I sometimes use hibiscus flowers to make tea with. I bought a large bag at some point and am struggling to use it up by myself 😅
Which potato do you love?
Me: YES 💜
Bizarre, only minutes ago finished my first meal with purple potatoes I grew - and here's this video. They didn't taste anything special but with other food and spices they were fine. I suspect they're expensive as they, or at least the variety I ate, grow quite small. They do look amazing when you cut them open.
this popped up on my feed the day I planned to plant my purple potatoes.
Purple sweet potatoes are my favorite type of potatoes but hard to get regularly
They're regularly sold at my neighborhood Sprouts and Whole Foods, plus a health food store with produce section.
How does this compare to orange sweet potatoes? I started using those in my curries with the skin on after seeing something about it on one of your videos. Thanks!
Thank you Dr Greger. We love you
Hey Dr. Greger, I wonder whether eating white potatoes combined with cooked carrots is any better... Do you know anything about that? I love to eat just plain cooked white potatoes and carrots togehter in my instantpot and mesh them.. quick and easy
Of course. The additional plants that you add that are higher up the spectrum will produce similar effects. As shown when mixed with broccoli for example, or even vinegar (other plant foods will do the same).
carrots raise blood sugar levels tho so maybe purple carrots are better than the orange ones
I have tried purple potatoes; however, they don’t taste good to me. Somehow tasteless and dry when boiled.
Damn I'm never this fast to watch videos on any other channel. 🤣😂🤣
Big potato fan here. I always thought purple potatoes were GM lol. Good to know I was wrong.
i would like to see a study of potato water. i chop and boil potatoes, and the sweet potato makes for a nice tasting drink from the water you boiled them in :) purple potato really color the water so fun to see :)
fact packed as usual
I eat a whole food plant based diet and I do not worry about what type of potato I eat, if I did worry about that I would question my own sanity.
Triggered?
I get it. There are many little things that make a little difference. It's hard to keep up with.
😂True…..good info for some tho…and interesting.
I don't think the idea is to worry and whoever is "worried" about potatoes is ridiculous. That doesn't mean you can't listen to information, on this cool and fascinating subject, about the amazing aspects of food and then select the good potato if presented with the choice. You don't worry about the bad, but you can certainly be excited about and interested in the good. Any lense has that concave and convex dual property factor. There will be people looking through the worry and others looking through the interest side.
Dude they trash fr. I hsd high blood pressure and high insulin but by only cutting out potatoes everything normalized despite of eating plenty of other carb sources..
I love purple potatoes-tasty, healthy and pretty! 👍🏻
I almost always learn something new including this time.
I was a "no excuse vegan" (which I can explain if needed) for a year and I also consumed 900% the RDA of sugar (processed at that) for a year. Got my physical before and after, and my blood sugar was perfect. I wonder if vegans can handle carbs better, as carbs are out primary fuel source.
yes especially if eating low fat, this is the key and high protein trigger insulin a lot too.
What MB says. You end up developing non alcoholic fatty liver disease. The fat you eat is the fat you wear. And why sugar is part of no SOS (salt, oil, sugar)
@@Yayyyyyyyyyy Indeed, it is the most important factor with body fat excess(which come mostly from dietary fat excess because 9kcal/gr).
I agree about processed sugar not being healthy, but I was pointing out that sugar, carbs, is the primary designed fuel source for us. We can handle sugars, but yes definitely should get the carbs from things like fruit. I am an advocate of whole food plant exclusive eating when I am not doing school projects 👍
The best potetoes I ever had were purple small Peruvian potatoes in Lima.
My local vegetable delivery service in Canada had purple Peruvian potatoes this summer/fall. Locally grown, of course, but apparently a variety from Peru. I bought them out of curiosity and they were by far the most delicious potatoes I've ever tasted. Seriously so good, you could eat them plain after boiling with no butter or salt or anything and they were outstanding. I actually emailed them and said I hoped they get more again next year, that's how yummy they were.
My favorite potatoes are the purple skin white flesh ones. I’ve been enjoying them with mashed banana and berries on top. It sounds weird but would highly recommend. I find the frozen (defrosted of course) are better than fresh berries.
Wow sounds Worth trying
That’s the Japanese sweet potato. Putting a ripe banana on there makes the whole thing taste like a Bavarian creme donut. Highly recommended 👊🏼
Purples potatoes are about $4.00/lb white potatoes as little as $0.40. At 1/10 of the price I'll just stick with the cooling hack I've been doing for years along with eating my potatoes with whole grains, different colored beans, vegetables and avocado and after lots of fruit.
What about Japanese purple potatoes (which have yellow flesh)? I've started chilling and reheating. Any benefit? They are the most delicious of all.
If it's organic and you eat the skin you might get similar effects .
@@martinnichols45 yup, organic.
I only get access to these seasonably - I eat yams and red potatoes- we have a ton of those here
What about red potatoes!m? I once heard they are healthier than others (excepting purple potatoes).
According to nutritionist researcher William Li MD of Harvard and Tufts, purple potatoes also killed cancer stem cells so the cancer tumors didn't come back.
Great video as usual. ☘️🎈☘️
There are no bad potatoes. I love purple potatoes!!
Anybody else notice purple potatoes are dryer and harder than yellow or orange potatoes?
Hey John, the reason the purple ones are dryer is that they are a lot starchier than the white ones. However, they can be brought to a soft and fluffy texture using the double-cook method. First steaming or boiling and then roasting. The results are spuds that are soft and fluffy inside, but crispy on the outside. For mashed potatoes just add more liquid to the mixture, milk, stocks, etc. I personally like chicken stock versus milk.
@@elizabethmirandes2430 great answer, thanks Elizabeth
Apparently you can also buy it powdered. Does that have the same or similar benefits? I suppose you add it to smoothies or soups.
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Like I said in a comment to a previous video in this series:
The most healthy potato is the McDougall potato.
You eat a lot of it (or sub it with whole grain pasta or rice) you don't add any fat.
And you're good. You're healthy. There you go - the McDougall potato.
Dang. I always eat the peel of the potato because I thought it had most of the nutritional value. Should I stop eating the peels?
@Groucho Marxist ASMR: do you eat 4-5 pounds of potatoes at a sitting? The peels do have most of the micro nutrients in a potato. If you’re going to eat more than a couple, peel all but one or two so you don’t overdo the toxins beyond what your body can easily handle. Normal amounts of potato skins are healthy because your body takes care of it.
yes if you eat a lot of potatoes regularly like at least 1kg a day.
Yes
The goodness is in the skin, like most all vegetables. No need to overdo them but I doubt get fat from white potatoes. It's all the other crap
@@G-rig6969 there is solanine in the peel, that's poisonous.
I just wanted to know which potato variety has more nutrients. Not too concerned about glycemic index lol.
Purple fleshed sweet potatoes are delicious, but difficult to get and expensive. In central Pennsylvania I’ve found Frieda’s organics purple sweet potatoes at Wegman’s. If you get the chance, and can afford it, give them a try!
Wonder if you get the same benefits using purple potato powder???
What about the purple VS orange VS light SWEET POTATOES?
And yellow corn VS purple corn?
Coconut flour with potatoes one of the best solutions in my opinion
Purple potatoes: "im the healthiest potato"
Purple sweet potato: "hold my beer"
Just ate purple sweet potato pie! 😋
Does purple sweet potato count?
How about the Ube purple sweet potato?
what about orange fleshed sweet potatoes ?
Purple potato pie, oh my!
What about red skin potatoes any benefit over white
I want purple potatoes so much ! They aren't sold here at all but gonna get the seeds to grow them 💚👏🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔
I’m jealous. If I could grow any potato, it’d be the Hawaiian 🤗
Love blue/purple/Peruvian potatoes
Wait, white potatoes wasn't a joke, they're actually an alternative to yellow potatoes that people eat? My mum used to tell me how disgusting her mother-in-law's potatoes were and one property of them was that they were white
Purple potatoes aren't available in the UK so I've never tried them
If you're going to cool mash until say the next day, maybe add a few porridge oats, psyllium or konji fibre. Personally, I add as much non starchy veg as I reasonably can, peas being a cheap, fibre containing option.
Also referring to the other suggestion of adding fruit to the mix, isn't that really deleterious to digestion, with fruit ideally consumed on an empty stomach? Is this more responsible for the slower gastric emptying than the pigments themselves?
Loved this
recent article "Not All Plant-Based Diets Equal for CRC Risk Reduction" had potatoes on the unhealthful plant-based diet index (uPDI) unfortunately because I love potatoes. Great to hear "day in day out" possible d2bw rnraw hint for the win!
Why weren't red potatoes studied? I assume they'd be above yellow potatoes but below purple. Red potatoes seem to be much more common than purple potatoes
How do the purple potatoes compare to sweet potatoes?
How to cook purple potatoes better ?
Yeah eat the skin or cook potatoes with skin. You can cook in coconut oil or spray them with oil and cook on stove doesn't necessarily lose it nutrients. You can make French fries healthier on stove too. ❤
I noticed this with purple potatoes. Finding them is hard. Melissa brand they seem to go bad fast. The little potato company…there was just something wrong with them, probably due to how they were grown, threw bags out.
Alright, alright, but what about the potassium?
What about sweet potato skin are they bad
Purple potatoes are amazing. Dang should i peel my potatoes? Thats a lot of work.
peel them after they are cooked, it is easy.
@@Julottt je commence à me méfier des pommes de terre maintenant avec ce qui est dit dans ces vidéos lol
@@davidvandingenen1178 boooouh les méchantes pommes de terres a l'eau/four a cause desquelles les gens remplissent les hôpitaux et les cimeterres! Tu aurais du regarder toute la série de vidéos je pense.
@@Julottt charge glycémique 104 pour 1 kg de pommes de terre cuisson vapeur c'est beaucoup quand même non ?
Purple potato is 5 times the price of yellow potato at whole foods.
that is our fault, when we buy more of them price drops.
If only my grocer carried purple potatoes
Just eat your potatoes with a salad that includes red cabbage and a vinegrette. Red cabbage is cheap and stores in the fridge for weeks. Just peal off a leaf each night.
all well and good but nobody gonna mention that belch at 2:06 ???
Why not just sprinkle a pinch of amla over the meal instead of looking for special potatoes that are rarely sold in local stores?
So, does this mean that people are trying to lose weight on a Mary's Mini are actually hurting themselves? And, where can you get purple flesh potatoes.
I love cold sweet potatoes . I'm called weird lol
Sweet!
Enjoying steamed large white russets right now with salt and mustard. I can feel the diabetes coming on as we speak lol
What?! But I was always told the skins were the healthiest part. Mind blown 🤯
In my family everyone has always peeled their potatoes, because no one likes the taste... why would you eat something so bitter? There are better sources of fiber and whatever else the peels may contain that as a bonus actually taste pleasant.
That's wrong. As the video shows, you'd have to eat a LOT of potatoes to be harmful. Rewatch the video.
@fdagpigj E Bitter flavors are underrated
*Here in Munich they appear to be 3-5x more expensive.*
For a staple of my diet, that's simply too expensive for me. _Hey ho: so are the joys of being poor._
It's okay to eat regular potato, just accompany them with some antioxidant-rich/coloured vegetables as broccoli, greens, beets, etc. You can also add vinegar, lemon juice, turmeric and other spices that either blunt the glycemic response or contribute with antioxidants.
What about eating purple potatoes and purple cabbage ? Be good for saint Pattie’s day ! LoL no orange potatoes ???
Purple potatoes suck to grow in the garden. Susceptible to many things and they don’t grow well in all environments as regular potatoes. Just something to keep in mind, tried many times in my garden and theyre always poor compared to my other potatoes.
Super interesting! I've seen purple sweet potatoes but not purple potatoes here in California
Is it safe to eat white potatoes if you're diabetic? I'm confused.
@@MB10097 okay thanks! :D
@@MB10097 I was thinking that too, cheers! :D
I PICKED ME UP SOME PURPLE TATOES AND PURPLE SWEET POTATOES TODAY 💪💪💪
I always thought sweet potatoes were the healthiest. Hmmm 🤔
Sweet potatoes are not potatoes. They belong to a different family but yes, they are very healthy because they don't elicit an exaggerated glycemic response and they are rich in carotenoids and fiber.
Can't wait to try purple fries at Mickey D's.
Oh, so isn't the 80% of just any carbs the greatest diet there is? I thought all whole food carb rich fat free plants are great, just because they are high in carbs. All off a sudden it appears that the compounds that reduce the carbs digestion and absorption are beneficial on the one and only high carb diets👍🎉
and where in the world does one find these purple flesh potatoes?
Gandang gabi ido
What?
Purple potatoes it is
So don't eat potato skins gotcha Doc. So what am I gonna do with my Costco sized tub of sour cream?
Eat fast eat fast………fasting is essential
i never buy white potato, taste like nothing and i known for a while they are the worst type of potato. and now more people know this also :)
Answer: a dead potato
Purple potatoes are dryer and more crumbly than the yellow and white potatoes. I don't care for them.
The real question: Would purple potato fries be healthy, or healthier, compared to white?
ALL potatoes are great and can NEVER CAUSE a health issue if you eat plant-based whole foods diet !
Dr Greger, please stop this nonsense in going after potatoes. You know darn well the work of the likes of Dr McDougall, the population studies of potato eating dominant populations and their health, and case examples such Andrew Taylor (Spudfit) who documented his recovery of health off living off potatoes only for a year.
This is clickbait from a biased slant towards the literature now, and it's infuriating. The man truly has lost the wood for the trees at this point.
@@MB10097 glycemic index from starches is not even an issue for healthy people. We eat in ORDER to raise blood sugar for a time afterwards! And that sure as hell does not cause type 2 diabetes. Walter Kempner proved that nearly a hundred years ago.
And the moment he talks about starch blocking and reduced starch consumption, is just strange. Cooked starches (untainted by added fats and animal foods) are the fuel of so many human civilizations, and yes, potatoes included.
This is muddying the waters, and it's unnecessary and misguided.
Gregor is just regurgitating the limited information that his team collects for him. Though some of his information is informative, this reductionist slant that he is having to place on new topics is getting old. Definitely loses credibility, if you want well rounded, in depth research on potatoes, seek out the work by Dr John McDougall. He even has posted several in depth responses to Gregors recent rants on potatoes.
Problem, these purple flesh potaotes have a very different taste and i dont like them like many people especially when you eat a lot.
then change your recipe and taste. you cant just switch the potatoe type and expect it to match the dish.
Tu connais la charge glycémique pour 1 kg de pommes de terre cuisson vapeur ?
160 X 65 : 100 = 104 charge glycémique c'est bien ça ? Si c'est bien ça c'est vraiment beaucoup charge glycémique élevée 21 et plus
@@davidvandingenen1178 plus que ca meme si tu prend un kilo lol mais pour placer dans l'échelle (>20 élevé), il faut prendre 100gr d'aliment pas un kilo sinon tu peux mettre n'importe quel aliment en élevé si tu augmentes la quantité, c'est la le problème de la charge glycémique, il faut bien la mettre au 100gr, ce qui donne 13 pour la patate a l'eau, allez je te donne 15 si tu veux lol, les fruits secs montent a 30-40 au 100gr, tu vois la grosse différence?
@@Julottt 16 g de glucides environ pour 100 g de pommes de terre IG 65 cuisson vapeur ça donne une charge glycémique 10,4 pour 100 g
time to buy all the purple potatoes.. but can't find any in my supermarkets da fak
im mad that white potatoes are bad 🤬
ii love you your awesome!
Does Dr Greger do response videos? Because it would be great to hear a response to this video:
ua-cam.com/video/hJNF2_dCWkg/v-deo.html
I know that years ago he did a video about protein and how you have to practically starve yourself to not get enough protein, and more important was to get fibre. The above video claims 103 developed countries don't get enough protein because they mainly get plant based protein, which is "poor " category of protein.
i would be interested in a response too, for what i know for now one should eat more types of protein containing foods, i.e. not to eat only red kidney beans but also soy lentils, or other legumes...
Try this search: Protein is not protein debunked. You will find many.
Not from Dr Greger, but I may have found a (indirect) reply here:
ua-cam.com/video/psAlJtgeQsY/v-deo.html
Hope you all get something out of it
i love frying potatoes in LARD or BEEF TALLOW.
Bro, comparing isolated potato starch to a full purple potato… white potatoes have fibre, water and vitamin A and C. Pretty disingenuous to compare just the isolated starch to a whole food. People are almost pre-diabetic, after a few days eating a lot of whole food starches they will be able to handle it and enjoy the benefits of the water rich meals, fibre and antioxidants. No need to fear monger about white potatoes.