OK, so you remember I told you that you should try to avoid French Fries - aka "Cancer Fries." Now the question has come up: What about sweet potato fries?
The reason you should avoid French Fries from a restaurant is because most are deep-fried in hydrogenated vegetable oil. Besides causing cancer, hydrogenated oils clog your arteries, promote heart disease, interrupt metabolic processes, and cause belly fat that crowds the organs and strains the heart. Things like brain cell function, hormones, gland function, oxygen transport, cell wall function, and digestive tract operation, are negatively affected.
Not only that, but acrylamides are formed when starchy foods are subjected to high heat. A Swedish study found that these can cause cancer in rats.
Do you think they have a separate vat of heart-healthy canola oil waiting to fry up your sweet potato fries? No such luck.
While sweet potatoes do contain a great source of Vitamin A, I'm sorry to break the news to you, but they're still deep-fried (just like Twinkies). For that reason, you're better off ordering a baked potato or better yet, a side salad, with your meal.
Fit's Tips: If you love the taste of French fries, why not bake your own? Cut up some taters, drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle with some dried rosemary, salt, and pepper, and bake. I think they taste better, because I know they're healthier for me.
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Matthew Williamson
I have never had these, but I bet they would be much healthier and yummier than regular fries
1I bake Alexa ( i think that is the brand name) yam fries at home. they arer super tasty and much better than anything fried and better for you than white potatoes.
2I make baked Yam fries with curry and they are SUPER yummy!!!!
3I bake sweet potatoes and regular potatoes into "fries". So yummy! I like the regular potatoes better, but the sweet potatoes sure take off the guilt.
4I heart yam fries...seriously! There's a great bar in my hood that serves them piping hot and I kill off the plate in 2 seconds! Care to share your recipe "chikeebabe"?
5I luuuuuurve sweet potato fries with just a smidge of sugar.
6Fit, good call on making your own! I do the same whenever I get a craving.
7i love sweet potato fries!
8hey...i just tried those the other night. they were good but the lady who made em, made em WAY to spicy. otherwise...surprisanly good
9Mmmmm scratch 5 - I like Alexia fries too. And they come in so many flavors - my girls love the waffle cut fries the best.
10Well they sure are good!
11Mmmmmmmmmmmmm the sweet potato fries at Fresh in Toronto are the BEST!
12i normally don't like sweet potatoes, but my mom made some sweet potato fries for Thanksgiving this past year and they were so freakin yummy! we used a Weight Watchers recipie and it turned out great!
13mmm... I definitely prefer baking my own. They taste so much better!
14Mmmmm.... all fries sound yummy right now!
15when restaurants/fast food chains start figuring out that they should be offering baked "fries" as well as fried, they're going to make a boatload of cash.
16I am having sweet potato chips for lunch - homemade, just not by me - and they are so amazingly good. I love love love sweet potatoes, but also fries in general.
17*I Love my McLife*
I make butternut squash fries...so good!
18ooh good call on the curried yam fries....I'll have to try that, I live in tater country, we grow everything from blue potatoes to sweet potatoes and I eat potato everything, I haven't tried butternut squash though, sounds good too!
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