Five health benefits of potatoes

Many consider potatoes unhealthy, fattening food that should be consumed in as little. Here’s why that’s not true!

The fact is that we often eat potatoes with mayonnaise, sour cream or fried in oil and then not in the recommended release. But when you eat cooked or baked with a crust, to the fore can get all of their strengths, which are the following:

Are loaded with potassium

One large potato with the skin contains 1.600 grams milligrams of potassium, which is almost half the recommended daily allowance of potassium and nearly four times more than that contains a banana, which is known for being the ‘rich’ in potassium.

Not only that potassium plays a key role in moisturizing and when exercising, but also lowers blood pressure.

They are rich in fiber

At least if you eat the peel, which can normally be consumed after cooking or baking. A large potato contains seven grams of dietary fiber, which is a quarter of the recommended daily dose, but remember that without the crust contains only one gram.

Diets high in fiber will help you feel satisfied for longer (meaning less to nibble between meals), but will also reduce the risk of heart attack, lower cholesterol and help prevent diabetes.

They contain a lot of vitamin C

Perhaps it would not say, but peel one potato contains 29 milligrams of vitamin C, which is almost half preferred daily dose, more than a third of the quantity contained in orange.

Although the intake of vitamin C will not ‘overnight’ solve cold, it is an important antioxidant and helps heal wounds.

Potatoes are an important source of manganese

Perhaps you are not familiar with manganese, but that does not mean that you do not need it. Manganese is an essential element in the processing of proteins, carbohydrates and cholesterol, and is involved in strengthening bones.

One large potato with the skin contains 33% of the recommended daily dose of manganese.

They are rich in vitamin B6

This vitamin is so much ‘background paper’, and works hard to preserve the cardiovascular and digestive function, strengthen the immune system and the muscular and nervous systems.

It also produces important hormones in the brain, and one large potato with the skin daily will give you 46% of the recommended daily amount of vitamin B6.

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