Potatoes

Potatoes as vegetable culture, arose in South America where and now it is possible to see its wild-growing bushes. Indians not just used potatoes in food, but also worshipped before it, as before the living being. Removed potatoes in food culture more than 14 thousand years ago.

Useful properties of potatoes and caloric content

Potatoes are an invaluable gift to the person from the mother nature. Scientists call it a botanical masterpiece and long ago claim about indisputable advantage of potatoes. It is considered one of the most useful vegetables, besides, has excellent nutritious properties. Tubers of potatoes contain a large number of various connections making favorable impact on an organism.

Nutritional value and advantage of potatoes is presented by contents in it the following substances:

• Proteins;
• Fats;
• Carbohydrates.

The essential advantage of potatoes for the person is caused by the maintenance of a set of vitamins in it:

• Vitamin A;
• Vitamins of group B (B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B6, B9);
• Vitamin K;
• Vitamin C;
• Vitamin E.

Useful properties of potatoes are also presented by the wide list of the macrocells which are a part of this vegetable:

• Potassium;
• Calcium;
• Magnesium;
• Sodium;
• Phosphorus.

There is a lot of microelements in this vegetable that provides unique properties of potatoes and its advantage:

• Iron;
• Cobalt;
• Iodine;
• Manganese;
• Copper;
• Molybdenum;
• Fluorine;
• Selenium;
• Zinc.

Mineral substances in a tuber of potatoes are distributed unevenly. So, most of all advantage of potatoes contains in a peel, and least of all – in the middle of a tuber. In an upper part of potatoes of the advantage consisting in the high content of vitamins and minerals it is much more

Potatoes represent special advantage that mineral elements in its tuber are in a form, digestible for a human body. They are presented by alkaline salts which can provide alkaline balance in blood of the person.

And at such variety of properties of potatoes and its advantage, potatoes caloric content on 100 g of a product makes 83 kcal.

Use of potatoes

Potatoes are a unique product which it is possible to use long time, without adding any other products to the diet. Caloric content of potatoes is sufficient to sate the person and to fill an organism with necessary energy. Using potatoes with a peel, no additional fats are required for an organism. The matter is that the peel of potatoes also contains fats necessary for an organism. Nutritional value of protein of potatoes is also very high. Potatoes by right received the high name "second bread". Potatoes always on a table, it are loved and esteem, it never becomes boring.

Potatoes grades, since its initial use in food by the person, are much. Now grow up more than 4 thousand grades of potatoes. Grades of potatoes differ to destination, that is, in the direction of use of a product. So, potatoes can be fodder (fodder), it is used on a forage to the cattle. Cultivars of potatoes grow up for use in food by the person. Grades of potatoes differ by certain criteria:

• Maturing term;
• Productivity;
• Keeping quality of tubers (possibility of its storage);
• Resistance to diseases.

Potatoes grades are also subdivided on degree and term of maturing of tubers:

• Early;
• Sredneranniye;
• Mid-season;
• Srednepozdniye;
• Late.

Early ripening varieties of potatoes the least fruitful, they are unstable to diseases, tubers of such potatoes contain less starch. But such shortcomings are compensated by early maturation.

Protein of potatoes contains all irreplaceable amino acids which are almost existing in the nature. 300 g of boiled potatoes eaten a day completely will provide the need of a human body for carbohydrates, phosphorus and potassium. 100 g of new potato contain nearly 20 mg of vitamin C. But at storage the content of vitamin C decreases and by spring decreases three times. Boiled potatoes can be used even during the periods of an aggravation of a peptic ulcer as cellulose does not irritate mucous.

Freshly squeezed potato juice is extremely useful to health. So, it is applied to treatment of a number of diseases:

• Peptic ulcer of a stomach;
• Chronic gastritis;
• Peptic ulcer of a duodenum.

Useful properties of potatoes, in its juice, have such effects for an organism:

1. Normalization of acidity of a stomach;

2. Regulation of function of intestines;

3. Prevention of heartburn;

4. Anesthesia;

5. Lowering of arterial pressure;

6. Prevention of locks.

So, analgeziruyushchy properties of potatoes in its juice use for fight with head and a dentagra, at painful periods at women. Pain is killed thanks to contents in acetylcholine substance potatoes.

Juice from potatoes needs to be squeezed out, using for this purpose only the fresh and unimpaired tubers. It is necessary to remember that if potatoes began to rot, became green, then in it harmful substance, solanine begin to be produced.

The advantage of potatoes is perfectly used at vomiting, nausea and an eructation. Acidity in a stomach is recovered, and the alimentary system returns to normal.

Starch as a part of potatoes is capable to reduce cholesterol level in blood and a liver. Thus, advantage of potatoes in property of anti-sclerous character. Presence of potassium at this vegetable causes effect of removal of excessive liquid from an organism. This very important property of potatoes well affects at diseases of kidneys and hearts. Potatoes bring extreme benefit to patients with a renal failure at a combination it with eggs. Besides, the people who are often taking alcohol also suffer from hypostases. In this case it will also be useful for them to drink potato juice during a hangover, or to have a snack at least alcohol on potatoes.

Buying vegetables, it is necessary to choose potatoes on a grade, by its outward. Tubers have to be equal and firm. They have to be painted evenly. If on a tuber there are green spots, it means that process of storage was broken, and potatoes were stored on light. Potatoes eyes solanine also contains harmful substance, they need to be cut out, they cannot be eaten categorically.

Useful properties of potatoes can be used not only in the form of juice. Potato cleanings can be applied as inhalations at catarrhal diseases. For this purpose it is necessary to breathe over steam of svezhesvarenny cleanings. Perfectly potato broth heals cuts, burns and wounds (water after boiling of potatoes).

Contraindications and harm from the use of potatoes

It is not recommended to use potatoes (especially, in the raw) at the following problems with health:

• Diabetes mellitus;
• Meteorism;
• Obesity;
• Enteritis, coloenteritis and colitis at the aggravating stage;
• Urolithiasis;
• Stomach hyperoxemia.

It is impossible to eat potatoes at obesity and a diabetes mellitus because caloric content at potatoes is considerably high. Big caloric content of potatoes and the wrong combination of products can lead to a set of weight.