Super Fast Nutrition with Potatoes

Potatoes come in many different colours and shapes, but they can be divided into four basic groups and some varieties have quite exotic names:

Red: Red skinned and yellow inside, e.g. Desiree, Red Bliss, CalRed.

White: White skin, white flesh, e.g. Rocket, Atlantic, CalWhite.

Yellow: Yellow skin, pale yellow flesh, e.g. Marfona, Criola, Island Sunshine.

Purple: Purple/Blue skin with white flesh, e.g. All Blue, Caribe

The names given to these varieties and their availability varies with where you live.

Potatoes, no matter which variety, are a real nutritional powerhouse. A five ounce potatoe in it's skin will provide:

Fat NONE

Cholesterol NONE

Sodium NONE

Potassium 720mg

Carbohydrate 26g

Fibre 3g

Sugar 3g

Protein 4g

Plus these minerals:

Calcium

Thiamine

Niacin

Foliates

Zinc

Copper.

Add one jacket potatoe to your daily diet for all those nutritional benefits.

What's more, jacket potatoes come in infinite varieties and are simple to prepare. These superfoods need to be washed, pricked all over with a fork and baked for around 45 minutes in an oven at 200 degrees centigrade. They are then ready to fill.

Try one of these ideas, or discover your own.

Light fry some mushroom with garlic, in a little olive oil. Add cream cheese and use to fill a potatoe. Return to the oven for 10 minutes and it's ready.

Fill a hot potatoe with tuna, onion and cream cheese mixed together.

Steak and onions makes a real feast. Cut the steak into strips before frying with onions, and put into a jacket potatoe. Add a little mustard, or ketchup, and you have a meal fit for a king.

There are many more things you can do with jacket potatoes. Keep it simple with grated cheese, baked beans, peanut butter, Marmite, even salsa, or try something more adventurous.

The variety is only limited by your own imagination.