Potatoes are certainly one of the most versatile vegetables in the produce aisle! You cook them in multiple ways: baked, mashed, roasted, steamed, boiled, grilled, and microwaved but that's not the only reason we're big potato fans. According to our friends at Green Giant™ Fresh Potatoes, "Potatoes are a super food, supplementing your body with many beneficial nutrients." Read on to learn how potatoes can improve your health!
Of course, there are ways to make healthy potatoes unhealthy by dropping them in a deep fryer. But when prepared in a healthier way, potatoes can provide your body with protein, vitamin c, potassium, fiber, vitamin B6, and many more necessary vitamins and nutrients. Plus, 20% of a potatoes' nutrition is in the skin, so leave the skin on when enjoying delicious potatoes at home.
In fact, here's a breakdown of what potatoes provide:
- Only 110 Calories: One medium potato makes a healthy side for any meal, or a hearty mid-day snack!
- Potassium: One medium potato with skin provides 15% of the recommended daily value of potassium.
- Vitamin C: Healthy potatoes are a great source of Vitamin C, providing you with 30% of your recommended daily value.
- Fiber: Get 2 grams of Fiber per serving! One medium potato with skin = 1 serving.
- Vitamin B6: Potatoes are a good source of Vitamin B6 with 10% of the daily recommended value.
In the age of the internet and information that spreads faster than you can fact-check it, you may have heard claims about white potatoes being unhealthy or causing weight gain. Here's the truth about the most popular potato variety – the Russet. See for yourself why russet potatoes are a healthy decision:
- Russets are cholesterol free, sodium free, fat free.
- Russets provide 45% of the recommended daily value of Vitamin C, 18% daily Potassium, 15% daily fiber.
- Russets are loaded with many trace minerals such as copper, manganese, phosphorus, pantothenic and folic acids.
- Russets provide 3g of protein, and vitamins B3 and B6.
- Russets are one of the richest sources of potassium, too, so important for our heart health.
If you're looking for a quicker way to enjoy healthy potatoes at home, we suggest giving any of Green Giant™ Fresh specialty potatoes a try: One Step...Done™ Potatoes, Minute Mashers™ Mashed Potatoes, and the new Minute Mashers™ with Gravy! They're the perfect potatoes providing convenience and ease of preparation without sacrificing quality, taste, and health! Inside each of these packages are real, farm-fresh potatoes, real butter, and real seasonings just like the ones in your own kitchen. Just take a look at this Minute Mashers nutrition label!
The next time you're searching for a healthy veggie for dinner tonight, consider potatoes from our friends at Green Giant™ Fresh potatoes.
I love a good fresh potato.
I think there all awesome!
They make potatoes so amazingly in the best light potatoes have gotten a bum rap.
I really need to get the potatoes I didn’t know only 110 calories in a medium one or that they had a lot of vitamins glad I read this thanks for posting
Love potatoes! Thrilled they’re also good for me!
Well, they’re good for you and they taste good. Works for me!
I’m 82 years old and I’ve eaten potatoes my whole life and it’s the one food I would never give up no matter what my doctor advised….
I love potatoes! My husband has them every night for dinner. He loves them anyway I do them. I love all the info you provided. I am going to read them to him and see if he knew any of them.
Look delicious.
Great information about potatoes, ALL of my family love it !!
Potatoes are loaded with all kinds of nutritious essentials you just cannot live without!
Potato health benefits offer so much more than just dirt and sunshine to keep you happy and energetic.
So many ways to do with potatoes!
Potatoes are full of health benefits on its own.
Amazing how nutritious potatoes are for you with so health benefits to boost, so fun to grow potatoes in the garden.
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3/9/23 There’s so many ways to prepare potatoes. I do not know ONE PERSON who does NOT LIKE POTATOES!!! Dress them up with cheese/meat/on a baked potato, simply mashed potatoes with butter, what kid DOES NOT LOVE FRENCH FRIES???
Wow, tasty AND good for you!
Potatoes are pretty much a super food. You can live on just potatoes and milk. The people in Ireland were doing that and a potato blight killed a million people. Many people emigrated to the America. Almost 200 years later and Ireland still hasn’t rebounded to the population they had before the potato blight. As a person born and raised in Idaho, I have great respect for potatoes (or spuds)
Green Giant is my go to potatoes for all dinner sides and recipes!
My favorite veggie!!!
I have eaten potatoes all my life. it is a staple food for me and my family.
Potatoes are my favorite foods to eat!
I follow Heathy Recipes!
Love these little potatoes.
I love Green Giant Potatoes!
Very easy to prepare
I will ty them soon
Thank you for making cooking easier.
I LOVE POTATOES WILL TRY
Wellthis confirms what I’ve been telling my kids. Eat them potatoes
looks good!!!
Potatoes are underestimated!
Still looking in Virginia.
Looks good 😊
I Can’t wait to try them.
I wish I could find them
We looked for these at our Walmart and they didn’t have them? I was really looking forward to finding and eating them. I had told my 85 yr young mom about them and she was excited for an easier way to make mashed potatoes- especially russet! We will keep looking.
Hi Cathy! Our friends at Green Giant™ Fresh potatoes are working hard to get these products available nationwide. Keep looking in your area and hopefully you can find them soon!
Easy
I’ll look for them on my next grocery trip.
Thanks so much for this helpful potato nutritional information.
Love potatoes, so versatile!
I rely on po!
tatoes for almost every meal
Good
I just learned that if you soak your taters in cold water before cooking them they’re extra better!
Yummy 😋
My family loves potatoes, any way I make them !
Thanks for the information
New things!
Didn’t know all that
cool
Interesting! I
Learned something
I’ve tried these and I like .them a lot
My daughter in her senior year to be a dietician. I sent this to her, who knew. Had to “school ” her ! 😊
nice dish
Love potatoes Comfort food
Looks interesting, and I’d love to try em’.
Wow.. never knew that russet potatoes have 3 G protein! Great nutrition info about potatoes. I love them so it’s great to know they actually aren’t unhealthy!’
I’m such a huge potato person and brown gravy is awesome with it but white gravy packets make a great quick meal ,I make my own popcorn chicken Bowls with the popcorn chicken cheese corn an gravy but having the potatoes an gravy in one pack so much quicker