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Potatoes are healthier than bananas and broccoli
Last reviewed: 01.07.2025
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The well-known potato has more nutrients, vitamins and minerals than ordinary "superfoods". At the same time, it is almost always excluded from numerous diets, considering it a product that spoils the figure. This information was obtained during the latest study, in which researchers from Britain studied the diet of 900 children and 1000 adults.
It turns out that potatoes are more beneficial for the body than popular bananas, broccoli, beets, nuts and avocados.
A jacket potato contains 6 times more plant fiber than a regular banana, and more vitamin C than 3 avocados. Potato tubers are also rich in vitamins such as: PP, B1, B2, B6, It contains the following macro- and microelements: potassium and phosphorus salts, sodium, calcium, magnesium, iron, sulfur, chlorine, zinc, bromine, silicon, copper, boron, manganese, iodine, cobalt, etc. It should be noted that there are more useful substances in the potato bark than in its core.
Potatoes also contain significantly more selenium than the average child gets from all seeds and nuts.
The study was carried out by independent nutritionist Sigrid Gibson under the auspices of the UK Potato Council. The team even developed a mobile phone app that compares potatoes with classic superfoods.
"It's important to have a wide variety of foods in your diet, but sometimes our minds are filled with the latest fad diets that promise quick weight loss and we underestimate old favourites like potatoes, forgetting that they are healthier and cheaper," says nutrition expert Sean Porter.
Let us recall that last year, scientists discovered that eating potatoes twice a day can lower blood pressure - and contrary to popular belief, this will not lead to extra pounds.