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Yukon Gold Potatoes: Nutrition level? Between Sweet and White??

Lynn

Posted : 12/16/2006 4:29:08 PM

Well, I guess the title says it all. I know most people on here think that white potatoes are mostly starch (sugar) w/o many benefits, whereas Sweet potatoes are much more nutritious. What about Yukon Gold type of potatoes? And, what do most dog kibbles use (other than Natural Balance which I know uses Sweet in their Sweet Potato and fish. Duh...) What about other TOP companies?

I'm not talking about having them at every meal, but as a base many times. Sometimes I would like to switch out and have these b/c I eat some of the potatoes that I cook for the dogs, so it would be easier to make just one type of potato, and I don't like sweet potatoes all the time.

Anybody have any opinions?

Lynn

Stacita

Posted : 12/16/2006 4:37:33 PM

I don't use a lot of carbs in mine, but basically they get what I get. I think variety is good because there are always trace nutrients.

jennie_c_d

Posted : 12/16/2006 7:37:40 PM

I use white potatoes, "new" (red skins.... we call them "new" around here, but I dunno if that's a Ga thing or not) potatoes, sweet potatoes, butter golds, yukon golds, whatever I've got. They eat ALL the veggies, with me. I figure that variety is great for them, and it won't hurt if some of it is "less" nutrition than the rest.

Lynn

Posted : 12/16/2006 9:35:49 PM

Yep, they're called "new" potatoes here, too! Thanks to both of you for replying. Funny how we start feeling guilty so easy over something like this and it just makes our life harder all the way around!

BUT, I can rarely use white potatoes around here. They all have so much sola____? in them ---> you know, where it's green. I try peeling it away, but it seems to stay green soooo deep, that it's not worth the effort to peel one potato about 3 times to get past the green part. The yukon's don't seem to have that problem as bad, and they taste soooo good.

willowchow

Posted : 12/16/2006 10:42:39 PM

I think the Yukon's would be fine if that's what you like too. I think it's Merrick that uses them in their foods.

sandra_slayton

Posted : 12/17/2006 1:56:37 AM

I love the Yukon Gold potatoes. And we grew the redskin potatoes on our farm and the smaller ones were called "new potaotes". We would dig up a mess of small ones (you only took 2-3 from each vine, carful not to disturb the others so they would get big) and cook them on a pot of fresh picked green beans seasoned with (heart beware) bacon pieces and bacon drippings. Or we would take the little potates and make a white sauce and put it over them. But when it came to harvest the crop, those large potatoes were not called new potatoes. It was only the ones that were about 1/4 grown when we dug them up that were called "new potatoes."

ron2

Posted : 12/17/2006 9:12:41 AM

The bucolic vision of your hard-working farm made me think of the Alan Jackson lyric;
"Back where I come from
It's corn bread and chicken ..."

jenhuedepohl

Posted : 12/18/2006 3:02:42 PM

I remember an article I read once on potatoes said the *real* new potatoes (red potatoes harvested in the spring) had a different taste/texture because the potatoes were harvested before much of the sugars were converted to starch. These are different than undersized red potatoes that are often marketed as *new* potatoes.

Pam

Posted : 12/18/2006 3:08:42 PM

White pototoes do have nutrients, think iron is one of them. They are for the thyroid I think??? The health food store told me to drink the cooking water from the potatoes for something ( alzheimers kicking in here).

But, they say potatoes are bad for arthritis ( a niteshade plant) like tomatoes.

brookcove

Posted : 12/18/2006 4:51:17 PM

The health food store told me to drink the cooking water from the potatoes for something ( alzheimers kicking in here).

Was it Alzheimer's? LOL, *ducking and running*