Can eating potatoes at night help lose weight?

In order to better help yourself lose weight, the choice of diet cannot be ignored. For friends who want to lose weight, you don’t need to worry about excess fat when eating potatoes, because potatoes have low fat content, but they are nutritious foods rich in protein.

1. Eating potatoes can help you lose weight.

1. First of all, you don’t have to worry about excess fat when eating potatoes, because they only contain 0.1% fat, which is far beyond the reach of all other hunger-filling foods.

2. Secondly, the protein in potatoes not only has nutritional value, but also has health functions. From a nutritional point of view, the nutritional value of 0.5 kg of potatoes is roughly equivalent to about 2,000 grams of apples.

3. You don’t have to worry about feeling hungry. While potatoes provide almost all the nutrients needed by the human body, the rich fiber can make the stomach feel full and give you a feeling of being full.

4. But be careful to eat potatoes as a staple food rather than as a dish. You can eat boiled potatoes, make potato chips or fried potato pancakes, and eat only potatoes for one meal a day. This is very effective in preventing overnutrition or losing excess fat in the long run.

2. From the perspective of nutritional value, potatoes are also an excellent staple food.

1. First of all, its potassium and magnesium content is higher than that of refined white rice and refined white flour, and it is an alkaline food. All refined white rice and flour make people's body acidic. Secondly, potatoes are high in protein quality. Although the protein content is only 2%, it is rich in lysine. As long as you eat enough, you can get all the amino acids needed by the body. Third, potatoes contain vitamin C, which is a good thing that refined rice and white flour do not have. Fourth, potatoes contain dietary fiber, while refined rice and white flour contain very little fiber. The fiber of potatoes is soft and will not irritate the stomach and intestines, so it can be eaten by all kinds of people. People with gastric ulcers or enteritis can also eat potatoes safely.

2. However, from a food safety perspective, potatoes are not a good snack. It turns out that after potatoes are heated at high temperatures, they are particularly prone to forming toxic substances such as "acrylamide", so fried potato chips are the food with the highest content of this toxin, and French fries also have this problem. Therefore, you should be extra careful when eating snacks such as potato chips, fried chips, and French fries, and do not exceed 25 grams per day.