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This article is so wrong its dangerous. Green leafy foods like spinach and lettuce are the best source of nutrients, highly sugary carbohydrate vegetable like w
by peter_retief 8y ago
This article is so wrong its dangerous. Green leafy foods like spinach and lettuce are the best source of nutrients, highly sugary carbohydrate vegetable like white potatoes and beets should be consumed less. Ranking vegetables is a pointless excessive, eating a wide range of nutrient rich foods is a good idea
- balfirevic 8y agoPotatoes don't contain significant amount of sugar.
- peter_retief 8y agoWell yes and no, they do have about 4 grams of sugar per potato but then your body turns the starch, in foods such as potatoes into glucose, a simple sugar
- balfirevic 8y agoGoogle says 0.8 grams of sugar per 100 grams, or 3.2 calories out of 77 total in those 100 grams of potato. That's 4%. The fact that starch is processed into glucose by the body does not make potatoes sugary.
- peter_retief 8y agoStarch is a complex sugar and to your body it is a sugar. Google definition here "Complex carbohydrates are made up of sugar molecules that are strung together in long, complex chains. Complex carbohydrates are found in foods such as peas, beans, whole grains, and vegetables. Both simple and complex carbohydrates are turned to glucose (blood sugar) in the body and are used as energy"
- pvaldes 8y agoIt depends on the context. Lettuce is 95% water, and has almost no calories (Definitely not the best source of nutrients if you live in a cold climate). We can't live eating only vitamins. A human brain needs a lot of sugar to work. Without a continuous supply of sugar our brain would die in minutes.