Can eating potatoes help you lose weight? The key is how to cook

[Key Points]: Can potatoes help you lose weight? Many people think that potatoes are starchy foods and will make you fat if you eat them, but this is not the case. Whether potatoes can help you lose weight depends on how you cook them.

Previously, Harvard University conducted a study on potatoes in the American diet. The results of the survey found that the number one enemy of Americans' obesity is not cake, soda or double bacon cheeseburgers, but the simplest potato.

In this study of the diet of modern Americans, scientists found that people who ate an extra serving of French fries a day gained an average of 3.4 pounds over four years; and overall, an extra potato, no matter how it was cooked, led to an average weight gain of 1.3 pounds over four years. In fact, the problem is not with the potatoes, but with the potatoes that have been added.

Potatoes themselves have little taste, so they are usually cooked with ingredients to enhance their flavor, from adding butter to the simplest baked potatoes, or frying them directly in oil; to adding cream to mashed potatoes, and adding large amounts of salad dressing when eaten as a salad; to deep-frying French fries; and even now, adding large amounts of cheese sauce, ham, tuna and other sauces after baking. In fact, potatoes themselves have many benefits. Whether they are a helper or a killer for weight loss depends on how you cook them.

Benefits of eating potatoes

1. Supplement nutrition and can be used as staple food

Potatoes are rich in vitamins and trace elements such as calcium and potassium. They are easy to digest and absorb and are rich in nutrients. It can provide a large amount of heat energy to the human body and can be used as a staple food.

2. Relax the intestines and promote bowel movements

Potatoes contain a large amount of dietary fiber, which can relax the intestines and facilitate bowel movements, help the body excrete metabolic toxins in a timely manner, prevent constipation, and prevent the occurrence of intestinal diseases.

3. Reduce blood sugar and lipids, beautify the skin

Potatoes can provide the human body with a large amount of mucus protein which has special protective effects. It can promote the lubrication of the digestive tract, respiratory tract, joint cavity and serous cavity, prevent fat deposition in the cardiovascular and systemic system, maintain the elasticity of blood vessels, and help prevent the occurrence of atherosclerosis. Peanuts are also an alkaline vegetable, which is beneficial to the body's acid-base balance and neutralizes the acidic substances produced after metabolism in the body. It has certain beauty and anti-aging effects. People who often eat potatoes are healthy and age slowly.

4. Diuresis and swelling

The potassium contained in potatoes can replace sodium in the body and at the same time excrete sodium from the body, which is beneficial to the recovery of patients with hypertension and nephritis edema.

5. Nourishes the stomach, strengthens the spleen and eliminates dampness

Potatoes contain a large amount of starch, protein, B vitamins, vitamin C, etc., which can promote the digestive function of the spleen and stomach.

6. Weight Loss

Potatoes are a rare food rich in dietary fiber and also contain a large amount of vitamins and minerals. Every 148 grams of potatoes produces only 100 calories, the actual starch content is less than 2%, and it contains only 0.1% fat, which can effectively control the total fat intake in people's daily diet.

Potato Diet

1. Cauliflower and potato soup

Ingredients: Broccoli and potatoes are rich in vitamins and chlorophyll and are also sources of energy for the body.

Method: Wash the cauliflower and cut into small pieces. Peel the potatoes, wash them and cut them into small pieces. Put the potatoes and cauliflower into a pot with water, then cut two slices of lemon and put them in, then cook over high heat. After the cauliflower and potatoes are fully cooked, add a little salt and pepper and serve.

2. Spicy and Sour Shredded Potatoes

Ingredients: 1 red pepper, ginger, garlic, a small amount of peppercorns, 5 dried chilies, 3 shallots

Method: Cut the potato slices into thin strips, soak the cut potato strips in clean water to remove the starch, chop the green onion, cut the pepper into small pieces, chop the garlic, chop the red pepper, and chop the ginger. Put oil in the pot and add peppercorns. Be careful not to use too high a heat so as not to burn the peppercorns. Leave some oil in the pan, add onion, ginger, minced garlic and chili and stir-fry until fragrant. Add shredded potato and stir-fry for about 2 minutes. Then pour vinegar along the edge of the pan and continue to stir-fry the shredded potato. Add shredded red pepper and stir-fry evenly. Finally, add chopped green onion, appropriate amount of salt, sugar and chicken essence to season.

3. Potato Omelette

Ingredients: 1 potato, 1 egg, half a sausage, cabbage, half a carrot

Method: First steam the potatoes, wash, peel, slice and steam them; then shred some carrots; beat an egg, I also added some shredded cabbage and sausage. It will taste good if you add some sausage. You can put the sausage into the steamer together with the potatoes for a few minutes, then take it out and chop it for later use. Mash the steamed potatoes into mashed potatoes, pour in the beaten egg liquid, stir evenly, then add all the side dishes, stir well, add a little salt and crushed black pepper to season; heat a little oil in a frying pan, scoop a spoonful of mashed potato and egg mixture with a small spoon, pour it into the pan, spread into small pancakes, and fry until both sides are golden brown.

4. Roast Chicken with Potatoes

Ingredients: potatoes, pheasant, dried mushrooms

Preparation method: Wash the pheasant, cut it into pieces, add oyster sauce and rice wine to marinate for 10 minutes; soak the dried mushrooms in water for half an hour, wash the potatoes, peel them and cut them into pieces; pour oil into the pot and heat it to 60% over high heat, then add the scallion, ginger and star anise and stir-fry until fragrant; add the marinated chicken pieces into the pot, then stir-fry until they change color, then add hot water to cover the chicken pieces, then add the potatoes and mushrooms, bring to a boil over high heat first, then simmer over low heat until cooked.

Source: 39 Health Network www.39.net

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