[HN Gopher] The Secret Superfood of Thanksgiving
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       The Secret Superfood of Thanksgiving
        
       Author : bilsbie
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2025-11-28 21:16 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | treetalker wrote:
       | potatoes
        
       | josefritzishere wrote:
       | Fun take but if french fries are bad, what is the correct way to
       | ingest potatoes? Why bogart the secret?
        
         | chomp wrote:
         | 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 wrote:
           | 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 wrote:
         | 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.
        
       | jagged-chisel wrote:
       | 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?
        
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