Do Think of Potatoes as Veggies or a Starch?

Get the best of POPSUGAR
Fitness — in your inbox!

Help us customize your newsletter by selecting your interests (optional):

Yoga Working Out Running Weight Loss

Do Think of Potatoes as Veggies or a Starch?

February 6, 2009

I just heard about a survey conducted by the Idaho Potato Commission that found the potato to be America's favorite veggie. While I have nothing against potatoes — I love them — I just don't think of them as a veggie. I think of them as a starch. I conducted my own small survey on classifying spuds and the results were mixed. So now I pose the question to you . . .

Source

Poll Potatoes

40 Comments

2 years 18 weeks

only the OBOMA NUT jobs can take a Starch and make it a hyphenated item, what do you expect from people that clap and cheer at a memorial service, I was in the ARMY as a Cook and we also put Potatoes as a starch, NEVER in the whole time I was there did we ever call them a veggie I have 2 kids and both are doing good to just eat and keep their weight up, so if they eat a potato I would be glad if they eat 4 bites. and NO they don't fill up on candy or junk food,

megania 4 years 14 weeks

What about a starchy veggie? I've never considered the two categories exclusive of one another. Sure, there's a lot of starch in a potato, but it's also an incredibly delicious and nutrient-rich vegetable.

megania 4 years 14 weeks

ashopaholic 4 years 14 weeks

when i do count my 7-10 a day, I don't include potatoes. but oh how I love thee!

HoneyBrown1976 4 years 14 weeks

starchy

HoneyBrown1976 4 years 14 weeks

starchy

Callie325 4 years 14 weeks

I consider them a starch -- but a much healthier, vitamin-ier starch than a roll or piece of bread.

divinedebris 4 years 15 weeks

Delish, that's what I think. I think that I consider them a veggie, but I've really never thought about it. I make potatoes pretty consistently, once or twice a week but I absolutely love love 'em, gotta have a tater.

snowbunny11 4 years 15 weeks

Starch! But I still love them!

Spectra 4 years 15 weeks

I generally think of them as a starch, but they are better for you than most refined starches if you eat them baked with the skin on.

Lo Lo 4 years 15 weeks

Potatoes are a starch that I can definitely pass up. I find them tasteless and boring. Sweet potatoes on the other hand are a delicious veggie that are full of flavour and nutrients in my opinion.

julieulie 4 years 15 weeks

Definitely a starch, not a vegetable. It doesn't mean that I avoid them -- in fact, I bought some potatoes at the supermarket this morning -- but I would never count them towards my vegetable servings for the day. There are, of course, nutrients in the skins (which I always eat) so it is certainly not a waste, but you cannot say eating a potato is equal to eating a head of broccoli.

jlb88 4 years 15 weeks

their GI index is way too high for me

LoveSarah 4 years 15 weeks

It's a starch and they are delicious!

jennjennnbubba 4 years 15 weeks

def as a starch

jennjennnbubba 4 years 15 weeks

def as a starch

fashionplate525 4 years 15 weeks

I love potatoes, esp. yams, but I think of them as a starch, and yes I do think about it!

GlowingMoon 4 years 15 weeks

Starch.

GlowingMoon 4 years 15 weeks

Starch.

wackdoodle 4 years 15 weeks

I said Veggie but actually I think of it as a tuber ( a root veggie a completely different creature in my mind for oh let's say spinach). Same with carrots- tuber. Potatoes are starchy but they are also loaded with Vitamin C and other great nutritious stuff.

gabiushka 4 years 15 weeks

Both.

gabiushka 4 years 15 weeks

Both.

Allytta 4 years 15 weeks

Veggie. No, scratch that. Bread. I come from a place where potatoes are worshiped and it is bread, much like rye and wheat.

ThePerfectScore 4 years 15 weeks

starch.... mmmm fries... mashed potatoes... potato skins.... mmmmm

AMP 4 years 15 weeks

Starch. And I've realized that I just really don't like potatoes. Besides french fries but that's b/c its hardly even a potato by then. But baked potato, mashed potatoes, twice packed, etc., etc. I'll PASS.

Link Love

40 Comments

You Might Also Like