Potatoes are more useful than bananas and broccoli
Last reviewed: 13.03.2024
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Everyone knows potatoes have a lot of nutrients, vitamins and minerals, rather than the usual "superfoods". In this case, it is almost always excluded from numerous diets, considering it a product that spoils the figure. This information was obtained in a recent study in which researchers from Britain studied the diet of 900 children and 1,000 adults.
It turned out that potato brings more benefits to the body than popular bananas, broccoli, beets, nuts and avocados.
Potatoes in a jacket contains 6 times more vegetable fibers than a normal banana, and there is more vitamin C in it than in 3 avocados. Potato tubers are also rich in such vitamins 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 the most useful substances are in the bark of the potato, than in its core.
Also, potatoes contain significantly more selenium than the average child receives from all seeds and nuts.
The study was conducted by an independent nutritionist Sigrid Gibson under the aegis of the English Potato Council. Specialists even developed an application for mobile phones that compares potatoes with classic superfoods.
"It's important to have a wide selection of foods in your diet, but sometimes our heads are busy with new fashion diets that promise fast weight loss, and we underestimate former pets such as potatoes, while forgetting that they are more useful and cheaper," said diet expert Sean Porter.
Recall, in the previous year, scientists found that the use of potatoes 2 times a day can lower blood pressure - and contrary to the fashionable look it will not lead to a set of extra pounds.