When it comes to potatoes, everyone is familiar. After all, potatoes, known as the second bread, can not only be used as Caicai for people's three meals, but also be easily contracted to people as a carbohydrate staple food. So, is potato a diet food or a fattening food? It mainly depends on your cooking style and eating habits.

Can you lose weight by eating potatoes?

Some people like to eat fried food. Good potatoes are fried into chips and chips. As we all know, the nutrients in potatoes basically disappear after being cooked and fried at high temperature. In addition, potatoes are rich in starch, and their adsorption capacity becomes stronger after encountering oil. So French fries and chips are high in calories. Under normal circumstances, the calorie of an ordinary steamed potato is 76 calories per100g, while the calorie of French fries is 200 calories per100g, or even more.

If you eat a proper amount of potatoes at a meal, you can completely replace other staple foods. However, in real life, many people just want to eat potatoes and staple food. The consequence of this is not only that it is easy to lead to unbalanced nutrition, but also that the body will consume too many calories and get fat over time. Potato helps to lose weight because it contains only 0. 1% fat compared with staple foods such as rice and flour, and its comprehensive nutrition is beyond the reach of all other staple foods.