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The Secret Superfood of Thanksgiving

The Secret Superfood of Thanksgiving

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·November 28, 2025
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jagged-chisel

Maybe it’s a regional thing, but there are potatoes everywhere here. Diced and roasted, baked, mashed, hashed, flavored in myriad ways (steamed, smothered, covered, diced, chunked, capped, peppered, topped) …

So who’s not potatoing on the regular?

josefritzishere

Fun take but if french fries are bad, what is the correct way to ingest potatoes? Why bogart the secret?

chomp

They’re not bad, it just depends on how much you process them. Oven baked fries for instance, are not far removed from normal oven roasted potatoes. Par boiling and then deep frying them in fats will release more nutrients than you would get from a normal baker. Slicing paper thin and perfectly frying is an industrial process that most people can’t replicate at home.

I honestly think home cooked potatoes are going to be perfectly fine in most ways.

jeltz

Why would industrially or restaurant made ones be any nutritionally worse? Processing is processing no matter who does it and processing does not automatically make something less healthy or raw meat would be healthier than cooked.

noveltyaccount

Author explains some anti patterns with too much fat, so I'd guess baked or boiled with a dallop of butter or oil and little salt is a good approach.

hollerith

You want to cook them at low enough heat to avoid forming any acrylamide.

treetalker

potatoes