Potatoes are full of nutrients, and they are foods with low calorie, multivitamins and trace elements. Fresh potatoes are rich in protein, vitamins and various trace elements, of which 20% are starch and tender dietary fiber, with balanced calories, which is suitable for people with various constitutions to eat for a long time.

Edible effect of potatoes

1. lose weight

Potatoes have a wonderful effect on human body. Thin people can get fat when they eat, fat people can get thin when they eat, and their bodies will become slim when they eat frequently. Potatoes have the functions of losing weight, maintaining vascular elasticity, expelling sodium and preserving potassium.

2. Beauty

Potatoes have a good effect of caring skin and maintaining appearance. Fresh potato juice is directly applied to the face, which has a remarkable whitening effect.

3. Eat a good personality

Food can affect people's mood because the minerals and nutrients it contains can act on the human body and improve the mental state.

Step 4 eliminate edema

Potatoes are rich in vitamins, trace elements such as calcium and potassium, and are easy to digest and absorb, with rich nutrition. In Europe and America, especially in North America, potatoes have long been the second staple food. Potatoes are beneficial to the rehabilitation of patients with hypertension and nephritis edema.

5. Keep the pace of the years

Potatoes are anti-aging food. People who eat potatoes often are healthy and slow to age.

Tips for purchasing potatoes

Few and shallow bud eyes: potatoes with few and shallow bud eyes are easy to peel and have higher utilization rate;

Feel porcelain: press the potato with your hand, and feel the porcelain is fresher and full of water;

Skin integrity: potatoes should be selected with dry skin and no broken skin or damage (new potatoes can have a little broken skin because of their thin skin).

Effect 1.jpg Potatoes with green, soft or sprouted skins may cause poisoning after eating, so do not buy them. Crispy potatoes: smooth and tender in appearance, pale in color, with few pockmarks, suitable for cold salad and fried shredded potatoes.

Noodles potatoes: the color is gray and there are many pockmarks outside, which is suitable for stewing and mashing potatoes.

Storage skills of potatoes

Long-term storage can put potatoes and apples together, because mature apples will release a plant hormone-ethylene, which can promote the ripening of plant fruits and the shedding of organs. When potatoes and apples are put together, the ethylene produced by apples will inhibit the cells at the eye of potato buds from producing auxin, and the auxin will not germinate naturally if it does not accumulate in sufficient concentration. Mature bananas should also have this effect.

Cooking skills of potatoes

1. Peeling potatoes: prepare a piece of tin foil (for baking), knead the bright side of the tin foil outward into a ball, rub the potato skin with the tin foil ball once, and put the rubbed small potatoes into a clear water basin, and all the potato skins will float out.

2. When peeling, only a thin layer is peeled off, because the juice under the potato skin is rich in protein. If peeled potatoes are not cooked immediately, they should be soaked in cold water to avoid blackening, but they should not be soaked for too long to avoid the loss of nutrients.

3. There are often blue-blue spots on the surface of potatoes, which are not beautiful when serving dishes. For example, if you put some vinegar in the water where potatoes are cooked (put one tablespoon per kilogram of potatoes), the spots will disappear.

4. Cook it with slow fire, so that it can be cooked evenly. If it is cooked with urgent fire, the outer layer will be cooked or even cracked, but the inside is raw.

Potatoes rot as soon as they are cooked, even if they are cooked with skin, it is difficult to keep them intact. If it is used for cold mixing or diced potatoes, you can add some pickled salt water or vinegar to the boiled potatoes, and the potatoes will remain intact after cooking.

6. Peeled potatoes should be placed in cold water, and a little vinegar can be added to the water to keep the potatoes from discoloring.

Taboos for eating potatoes

1. Potatoes that have sprouted are forbidden to eat, and a large amount of them can cause acute poisoning.

2. Eat potatoes must be peeled, potato skin contains alkaloids, a large number of eating will have nausea, diarrhea and other phenomena.

Edible suggestions for potatoes

Potato skin contains a small amount of toxic substances, so it is best to peel it before eating. After washing and peeling potatoes, they can be cut into shredded potatoes and potato chips for cold salad or stir-frying, potato chips and potato pieces for stewing, and whole potatoes can also be stewed.

Skillfully peeling potatoes:

1, under the tap, while washing potatoes, while scrubbing with a clean cleaning ball, you can quickly peel potatoes;

2. Wash the potatoes and boil them in water for 1 min. Take them out and put them in cold water. Once peeled, they will fall off.

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Step 2.jpg crisp potatoes are white in meat and crisp in taste, which is suitable for cold salad or stir-frying; Noodles are yellow in meat and soft in taste, and are suitable for stews or mashed potatoes.

Potatoes can be cold-mixed, stir-fried, stewed with all kinds of vegetables or meat, steamed and pressed into mashed potatoes to make creamy mashed potatoes and potato cakes. Cut potatoes should be soaked in cold water if they are not in a hurry to cook immediately, so as to avoid blackening due to oxidation. When frying shredded potatoes or potato chips, put a spoonful of white vinegar to make the potatoes taste crisp and white.

When cooking potatoes, adding some vinegar can also effectively decompose the toxins in potatoes. Treatment of scald: Slice and stick it on the scald to stop the swelling;

Relieve knee pain: appropriate amount of potatoes and ginger, washed and mashed and applied to the pain area, can relieve the pain;

Treatment of long-term constipation: potatoes and lotus roots are washed, mashed and squeezed, and long-term use can relieve long-term constipation.