Potato dishes, as a rule, are very high in calories and do not benefit the figure, in addition, they overload the work of internal organs – how to avoid this by making potatoes dietary?
Zukhra Pavlova, an endocrinologist, shared her advice on how to make potatoes as healthy as possible. The medic noticed that the culinary traditions followed by many Russians involve the use of potatoes as something very satisfying, super-nutritious. , becomes more nutritious: they put butter, milk or cream in their puree, potato pancakes contain flour and butter. But an excess of fatty, fried foods increases the risk of developing heart disease and diabetes, not counting the impact on the liver and kidneys,” Pavlova said.
To eat potatoes, getting useful minerals from them, the expert advised cooling the product after cooking. According to Pavlova, in boiled chilled potatoes, the starch changes its form, turning into resistant retrograde starch. When consumed, blood sugar levels do not rise quickly and sharply. Such resistant starch is digested like dietary fiber – it is fermented by the large intestine, and thanks to this, beneficial intestinal bacteria are nourished, actively developing. The consequence of such activity is, among other things, the strengthening of immunity.
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Zukhra Pavlova Healthy lifestyle endocrinologist ISEC Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov, candidate of medical sciences