SUPERFOOD
SO
SWEET
It’s the sweet tooth you’re allowed to have: an ingredient full
of carbs, fibre and potassium. The sweetest of potatoes.
Chips
Nutritionally unrecognisable from
its simple potato origins, chips
will have been fried, salted and
almost always de-skinned –
removing one of the healthiest
parts of the potato, full of
nutrients and fibre!
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Baked or boiled
potatoes
Four helpings of traditional
potatoes a week raises your risk
of hypertension by 11 percent
due to each potato’s high
Glycemic Index (GI) levels,
ultimately raising your blood
pressure. Sweet potatoes
contain notably low GI.
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To understand what makes sweet potatoes the superb, fitness fanatics’ favourite that
it is, let’s first weigh up its competitors, before attempting three sweet potato dishes.
Yam
Sometimes confused with sweet
potatoes, yams are similar in
appearance and similarly
healthy: high in fibre and
potassium, more so even than
sweet pots. Yet they are another
sufferer of higher GI, carry a
greater number of calories and
have less beta-carotene, a
nutrient thought to guard against
certain cancers.