Potatoes sometimes get a bad reputation for not being a healthy vegetables. To the contrary potatoes are loaded with nutrients such as potassium, vitamin C, vitamin B6, and fiber.\u00a0 It is what we often do to potatoes (fry them, load them, etc.) that steal from their nutrient profile. \u00a0To get the most nutrient bang for your buck keep the potato peel on.\u00a0 By eating the entire potato you will be getting all the nutrients it has to offer.<\/p>\n
There are over 100 varieties of potatoes sold in the United States.\u00a0 Some of the most common types are russet, red, white, yellow, blue\/purple, fingerlings, and petite.\u00a0 White potatoes are a very versatile and inexpensive vegetable.\u00a0 Follow this link to learn how to best select, store, and prepare white potatoes<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sweet potatoes although very similar in nutrient content to white potatoes are in a class of their own.\u00a0 Sweet potatoes have drastically more vitamin A than white potatoes. Sweet potatoes also have one more gram of fiber, less calories, and more sugar per serving than white potatoes.\u00a0 It is interesting to note that sweet potatoes are not the same as yams.\u00a0 Yams are from a different plant family. Grocery store yams are probably not real yams but sweet potatoes.\u00a0 Real yams are typically white inside and not orange.\u00a0 Follow this link to learn how to best select, store and prepare sweet potatoes.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Try these delicious recipes submitted by follow Nebraska Extension Nutrition Know How bloggers Nancy Urbanec and Audra Losey: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Potatoes sometimes get a bad reputation for not being a healthy vegetables. To the contrary potatoes are loaded with nutrients such as potassium, vitamin C, vitamin B6, and fiber.\u00a0 It is what we often do to potatoes (fry them, load them, etc.) that steal from their nutrient profile. \u00a0To get the most nutrient bang for your buck keep the potato Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[780,55],"tags":[1180,1181,131,1115],"class_list":["post-12344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nutrition-2","category-c","tag-grilling-potatoes","tag-potato-recipes","tag-potatoes","tag-sweet-potatoes","cat-780-id","cat-55-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/blogpotatoes.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12344"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12348,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12344\/revisions\/12348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nGrilled Potato Salad<\/a>
\nSweet Potato Hash with Sausage and Caramelized Onions<\/a><\/p>\n