What is mashed potatoes? mashed d is to potato as raw material, add some corresponding seasonings, put in the container to cook, with tools into a kind of food, is one of the favorite complementary food.

The main ingredient of mashed potatoes is potatoes, which are rich in protein and even better than soy, closest to animal protein. Potatoes are also rich in lysine and tryptophan, which is incomparable to general grain. Potatoes are also rich in potassium, zinc, and iron. Potassium contained can prevent cerebrovascular rupture. It contains 10 times the protein and vitamin C, as apples, and vitamin B1, vitamin B2, iron and phosphorus are much higher than apples. Overall, its nutritional value is equivalent to 3.5 times that of apples, which is very suitable for babies to eat.

Nutritional value of mashed potatoes

Potatoes can be used as vegetable dishes, or as the main food. People eat 0.25 kilograms of fresh potatoes every day, can produce more than 100 thousand calories, and after eating has a good sense of satiety, so the potatoes are very hungry, coupled with potatoes have no abnormal taste, so it can be used as a staple food. But it has more advantages than rice, flour, potato protein content is high, and has all the amino acids necessary for the human body, especially rich in cereal deficiency lysine, so the mixing and consumption of potatoes and cereals can improve the protein utilization rate.

Potatoes are also the most complete vitamin content of all food crops, equivalent to 2 times as much as carrots, 3 times as Chinese cabbage, 4 times as tomato, and B vitamins 4 times that of apples. In particular, potatoes contain carotene and vitamin C, that grain grains do not contain 10 times the vitamin C as apples and are resistant to heating. A nutritionist has experimented with: 0.25 kilograms of fresh potatoes are enough for a person to need the vitamins for a day and night.

Potatoes are also a treasure house of minerals, ranging from several to dozens of times as apples, and the nutritional value of 500 grams of potatoes is equivalent to about 1,750 grams of apples. Studies have shown that if people eat only potatoes every day, the body takes 10 times the traditional food vitamins and 1.5 times the iron, even without supplementing any other food.

Potato also have a very magical medicinal value. Potato starch in the body slow absorption does not lead to rapid blood sugar rise; dietary fiber in root vegetables, often eat potatoes can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, and dietary fiber helps reduce the risk of colon cancer and heart disease is the result of many health studies; potassium content is high to eliminate excess sodium in the body, help to reduce blood pressure.

 People who often eat potatoes are 72.4% less likely of living with infectious diseases such as influenza, infectious hepatitis, dysentery, typhoid fever and cholera than those who do not eat cholera. Nutrition experts have confirmed that the protein of potatoes can keep the body more resistant to certain harmful factors in nature.