What is your Favorite Veggie?

[LadyLuna]

lol wut? Potatos are awesome for you.

" A medium-size potato provides 1/3 the vitamin C recommended daily for an average adult. Potatoes also supply thiamin, niacin, iron, carbohydrates and small amounts of vegetable protein. "

A small baked potato has 4.2g fiber and a small baked Sweet Potato has 4g fiber.
Poor potatoes have gotten such a bad reputation from the low carb craze.

I love so many vegetables it's hard to pick, spinach, carrots, peppers of all varieties, zucchini, squash nommmmmmmm.

Gotta throw out a shout out to the mushrooms over the in fungi category too, button and crimini yum!

Carbohydrates are pretty much sugars. Complex sugars, but they break down the same. (well, technically sugars are carbs, but whatevs.) Carbs over 100g (DRI 300g, wuuuuut?) are bad for you and increase chances of weight gain and related disease.
Also Sweet Potato is a yam.

In and of themselves, potatoes are AWESOME for you.

It's what we do to the potatoes that make them bad. EVERYTHING is a sugar. That is what we digest everything into- sugars. The biggest question is the ratio of fat to other things. Loading a potato with butter, bacon bits, and cheese, of course it becomes bad. Deep-frying it makes it bad without adding ketchup, and most ketchups are horrible for the health. Mashing it up usually removes the skin, which is where most of the goodness in a potato is, and then add in a ton of salt and you've got a recipe for heart problems.

It's not the potato in and of itself. It's what we do to it.