Raw potato is more beneficial?

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In our locality, I see some poor guys who collect pieces raw potato with the outer skin, from road side junk food stalls and eat them. They are healthy looking guys; I asked one of them, he said, he eats this only, no other food for the last four years. It was amazing. I asked friend of hubby, Prof. Dutt, who specializes in Nutrition. He gave me the following useful information. I am sure you too will like this. Raw potato juice is rich in potassium, sulphur, phosphorus, and chlorine, you can get this potato benefits only if you consume raw potato as juice or JUST STEAM the potato, because these powerful minerals are converted to inorganic atoms when potatoes are cooked. Potatoes may help fight against high blood pressure, prevent heart attack, protect against stroke, prevent kidney damage due to high blood pressure, controls appetite and could protect you from certain cancers due to its potassium and vitamin C content. Potato is still healthy to be consumed as baked, boiled and mashed one but its healthy effects is much lesser than consuming it raw and the easily digestible sugars in raw potatoes are converted to starches upon cooking. Potatoes are not good to be consumed as chips and fries because of acrylamide formation. So, the best way to consume it raw is by taking it as juice. Fresh raw undiluted potato-carrot juice is so nutritious. A cup or two of potato-carrot juice a day is a great help to health problems like skin blemishes and high blood pressure. Because of high cost of meat, here we add potato to meat while making curry; to this Prof Dutt, says,combination of cooked meat and potatoes strengthen the solanin poison of the potato? Solanin is an alkaloid poison that is predominant in potatoes too green in color. Rather consuming sweet potato is much more beneficial, sweet potatoes has one-third more carbohydrates, three times more calcium, twice more sodium and silicon, and more than four times chlorine than Irish potatoes. So I am thinking of ‘no more potato chips’, (my grandkids like them so much); no potato-meat curry (my son’s favorite) henceforth. [b]I myself and Professor will start drinking potato-carrot juice soon. What is your opinion on this? Will you too take potato-carrot juice? Please respond and share your views.[/b] Kalyani ‘Namastey’. . God bless you to enjoy a lucky day ahead.