Potato: Nutrition Facts
With
Merit Selection frozen French fries, you can recreate popular
restaurant standards. Treat your guests to an all-you-can-eat feast
of steak and fries or mussels and fries. Tired of doing the same
old thing when you entertain? Why not throw a “beer and
fries” party where guests can taste their fries with various
sauces and beers’
| Potato | 161 cal |
| White Rice | 217 cal |
| Pasta | 209 cal |
| Instant Oatmeal | 364 cal |
Fiber
| Potato | 3.8 g |
| White Rice | 0.7 g |
| Pasta | 1.8 g |
| Instant Oatmeal | 2.1 g |
Carbohydrates
| Potato | 36.59 g |
| White Rice | 47.03 g |
| Pasta | 41.82 g |
| Instant Oatmeal | 15.43 g |
Medium potato with peel (173g), oven baked - Cooked long-grain white rice (167g/250ml) - Cooked enriched pasta (macaroni) (148g/250ml) - Prepared plain instant oatmeal (145g/175ml)
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Oven Roasted Sweet Potatoes |
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Garlic Potato Gratin |
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Potato-Vegetable terrine With Green Goddess sauce |
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Indian Potato Salad |
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Stuffed potatoes Caesar |
In addition to all the vitamins and minerals they contain, potatoes are an important source of antioxidants, which are of great benefit to your health.
Vitamins and minerals|
Content |
% DRA* |
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| Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) |
16.6 mg |
28 % |
| Vitamin B1 (thiamin) |
0.111 mg |
9 % |
| Vitamin B3 (niacin) |
3.564 EN |
15 % |
| Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) |
0.538 mg |
30 % |
| Folac acid |
48 ug |
22 % |
| Pantothenic acid |
0.65 mg |
9 % |
| Phosphorus |
121 mg |
11 % |
| Magnesium |
48 mg |
19 % |
| Iron |
1.87 mg |
13 % |
In a medium size, unpeeled, oven baked potato, there is ...
- As much fibre as in 6 dried prunes
- As much Vitamin C as in 2 apples
- As much protein as in ½ cup of milk
- More Vitamin B1 than 1 cup of whole-wheat spaghetti
- Twice as much potassium as in 1 banana.
