Today, there are many varieties of potatoes, about 50,000. This vegetable can be purple, white, yellow, and even pink. We are already used to cooking it in various forms: bake, fry, cook, mash and pancakes, add to different borscht and soups, stuff pies and pies. It is difficult to imagine a feast without dishes in which potatoes are used (independently or as one of the ingredients). Useful properties of it are quite wide, and we will talk about them further.
Starch, which is made from potato root crops, is widely known for its binding property. In addition, it is used in the preparation of various dishes (for example, jelly). Not to mention the fact that starch has an enveloping effect and is useful for the gastrointestinal tract.
Low calorie katofel makes it an excellent product for a variety of diets. At the same time, combine potatoes, the useful properties of which are very diverse, best with other vegetables, as well as kefir and other dairy products. It should be noted that this vegetable is also very popular in the textile and paper industries.
Few people know about the benefits of potatoes during various diseases. But still, its benefits are truly unique! Due to the high potassium content, potatoes are widely used as a diuretic, with which you can remove unnecessary liquid from a human organism. It is very useful for diseases of the liver, kidneys and bladder.
Fresh potato juice favorably affects the stomach and is often taken during ulcers, gastritis. He is also able to lower blood pressure. Raw potatoes, the beneficial properties of which are manifested not only during oral administration, contribute to the treatment of wounds, burns, eczema, and help with dermatitis and other skin diseases. In addition, this vegetable has excellent anti-inflammatory properties.
Potato: useful properties
As mentioned above, this vegetable has excellent wound healing and anti-inflammatory properties. At the same time, chopped and grated potatoes are applied to the wounds, as well as they rub the affected areas and put on a bandage that needs to be changed every 5 hours.
Potatoes are often used, the beneficial properties of which are also diuretic in case of hypertension, when the patient is not recommended to use a lot of fluids. Its juice does not stay in the body, but the most important thing is not to consume a lot of salt at the same time, because otherwise the therapeutic effect of the potato will not appear or will be insufficient.
In order for the potato to retain as many useful properties as possible during cooking, you need to boil it or bake it without peeling, as the saying goes “in its uniform”. Thus, you will be able to save in it a large amount of potassium, enzymes, zinc and various minerals.
You should be especially careful when buying potatoes in order to continue to use a high-quality product and benefit your body. In the ripening season of the vegetable, it is better to give preference to young potatoes, as it has more benefits and rich taste than last year's crop. In this case, root crops should be solid, without a greenish color, which indicates the content of a toxic substance, which is formed due to the presence of potatoes in direct sunlight for a long time. In this case, you can even get poisoned, so you should not buy such potatoes.
It is also necessary to remember that potato chips, which are so popular today, do not bring any benefit (but, on the contrary, harm health). They contain many carcinogens that adversely affect the body as a whole. In this case, the calorie content of potatoes in chips is far from the same as in boiled (or even fried) form. If we talk about a young vegetable, then its calorie content is about 60-80 kcal per 100 g of product, but the chips contain more than 500 kcal. Therefore, replacing healthy mashed potatoes, stewed, boiled or fried potatoes with delicious, but extremely harmful chips is at least unreasonable. It is better not to use such a product at all (especially when it comes to children) or to regale it only occasionally and in small quantities.