Eating Potatoes This New Can Replace Rice

Edulivee.com– Many of us already know that potatoes are a food that can be used as a substitute for rice. Potatoes are quite easy to get because there are quite a lot of processed types of dishes that use potatoes as the basic ingredient, in addition to snack or snack products lately, many have provided potato-processed product innovations. Do you think potatoes can be considered as a substitute for rice?

 

Potatoes are foods that are rich in carbohydrates. Potatoes are easy to get in the form of processed snacks such as potato chips. In addition, we generally process potatoes as an addition to cooking or processed vegetables such as vegetable soup, potato cakes or other dishes made from potatoes.

 

The high carbohydrate content in potatoes is the same as the rice content which is also rich in carbohydrates. Both of these foods are sources of carbohydrates so that both can be used as staple foods. Many of us think that eating potatoes means that we can replace rice without paying attention to portions. Even though the portion is important to pay attention to because if the portion consumed is not right, then the calorie needs that are usually able to be met from rice, can't be fulfilled because the portion of potatoes is not suitable.

 

According to the Indonesian Ministry of Health in the Guidelines for Balanced Nutrition, one serving of rice (100 grams) will only have the same content as potatoes if the potato is consumed as much as 210 grams. This figure can be met by consuming 2 medium potatoes. So if we want to replace rice with potatoes, we need to pay attention that the potatoes that must be consumed are as many as two potatoes.

 

This can be applied easily if we consume potatoes that are still in their whole form (still in the form of fresh potatoes or granules) so that it will be easy for us to estimate how many portions. In addition, potato processing should be in boiled form so that the potato content can be as similar as possible to rice which is generally processed by steaming. Confused about what kind of preparation is right to replace rice with potatoes? You can try processing potatoes into interesting preparations such as mashed potatoes. Besides being delicious, this preparation can also fulfill the portion of potatoes as a substitute for rice.