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Here’s why you need plenty of spuds on your Christmas dinner plate

Here’s why you need plenty of spuds on your Christmas dinner plate

Potatoes are a great source of vitamins and minerals (c) James Hutton Inst
"Potato has a very high satiety index compared to foods with an equivalent carbohydrate content and this represents a very positive aspect of potato nutrition"
Potato tubers in soil (c) James Hutton Institute

Tis’ the season of potato intake, but did you know the humble tattie is a great source of vitamins C, B6, B9 and a whole host of macro and microminerals? Together, these biocompounds are responsible for maintaining a good health balance and delaying the onset of several degenerative diseases.

A Hutton study on the benefits of potatoes on human health has found that these micro and macro-minerals and to a lesser extent the vitamins, can survive processing and cooking methods.

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This article was originally posted by The James Hutton Institute