Potatoes are neither warm nor cool foods. Potatoes are neutral foods.

Food with neutral properties is a type of food that has cold or warm properties. Its cold and hot properties are not obvious and are relatively mild. They can be used regardless of cold or heat syndrome. For example, potatoes, corn, yams, sweet potatoes, honey, etc.

1. Cooling foods

Cooling foods refer to foods that have medicinal functions such as clearing away heat, purging fire, and detoxifying. Cooling food and cold food are basically the same in nature, but differ in degree, so they are also called "slightly cold food".

Common cooling foods include millet, wheat, coix seed, shiitake mushrooms, cucumber, winter melon, spinach, pear, etc. It is suitable for "heat" diseases such as yin deficiency or yang hyperactivity, or internal fire, deficiency heat caused by external evils such as heat, heat, and dryness.

2. Warm food

Warm food refers to food that is warm in nature. Chinese people pay attention to food supplements, and in food supplements, they also pay attention to warming foods. Warm foods can warm the body. Common warm foods include: flour, soybean oil, wine, vinegar, ginger, onions, garlic, and carrots.

Reference materials:?Baidu Encyclopedia--Foods of neutral nature?Baidu Encyclopedia--Cold foods?Baidu Encyclopedia--Warm foods