If you are making French fries, it takes about 4 to 5 minutes to cook potatoes. When cooked, they can also be used to make mashed potatoes. If you cut potatoes into large pieces of stew, it usually takes 15 to 20 minutes to cook. Therefore, different cooking methods need different time.

The benefits of potatoes

1, can tonify the spleen and stomach, because from the perspective of Chinese medicine diet, potatoes are flat and sweet, and enter the spleen and stomach. For people with loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain and bloating, and indigestion caused by weakness of the spleen and stomach, eating potatoes properly is good for the spleen and stomach.

2, can tonify kidney and replenish essence. For people with soreness of waist and knees, soreness of waist and legs, early gray hair and long beard caused by deficiency of kidney-qi, eating potatoes properly has the function of tonifying kidney and replenishing essence.

3, can help defecation. For people with dry intestines and constipation, eating potatoes properly can help defecate.