Food Facts.
Potatoes.

The mineral matters, vitamins, fat and protein elements are all very largely contained next to the skin, and in peeling potatoes thickly, these ingredients are lost. This leaves starch as the main nutritive element of what is now an unbalanced food product.

Contrary to the popular belief, the potato is not fattening if it remains well-balanced, but combined with fats and other starches and deprived of its food balance by being peeled thickly it does prove fattening.

If the potato is twice cooked—first steamed and then baked—the starch becomes partially dextrinised and much more digestible.

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