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Potatoes are vegetables.
by majewsky 7y ago
Potatoes are vegetables.
- frereubu 7y agoAnd as far as I know contain a pretty decent amount of vitamin C at the very least.
- adrianN 7y agoUntil you cook them? Vitamin C is not very heat resistant.
- friendly_chap 7y agoThat's what I thought too until I actually looked into the matter, don't have source at hand but apparently 1 hour of cooking causes about a 30% drop in Vitamin C. Not that bad.
- Cederfjard 7y agoDo you know if leaving the skin on helps?
- friendly_chap 7y agoI was researching usage of pure vitamin C powder in cooked foods and tea. Don't think the skin matters much if the powder can survive.
- _carl_jung 7y agoThey also contain a huge amount of potassium. Even more so than bananas.
- scandox 7y agoGood point. I can only say that where I come from they are seen as something distinct, perhaps a category of food entirely their own.
- pwagland 7y agoThere are also places in America, particularly the south, where macaroni cheese turns up on the vegetables list. I think that everyone kind of agrees that mac-n-cheese is a side, but not a vegetable.
- Lio 7y agoThis story from 2010 shows that it is possible to live on nothing but potatoes[1]. [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11864290 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11864290