Author: Food Issues Committee

Tagline: Potatoes are amazing! Letting them cool down can make them even healthier!

Potatoes are amazing! The starch in potatoes can transform from fast digesting white starch to super healthy resistant starch without doing anything to them, just by letting them cool down after cooking.

If you wait for this to happen, the food that you will offer to your body will be much healthier than if you eat your cooked potatoes immediately. The resistant starch, what is known as a prebiotic, will provide many benefits all along your intestinal tract, and most of all will allow the production of butyrate by the microbiota in your colon. Butyrate is a short-chain fatty acid that has a major regulatory role for human health, within the intestine and way beyond, including the immune system.

You don’t have to eat your potatoes cold to get these great benefits! Cooled potatoes once reheated retain all the nutritional value that they have previously acquired while cooling down. And all the varieties of potatoes on the shelves at Karma Co-op have the ability to transform into great food if you let them do so. So think twice before you go and eat those hot potatoes.