When you boil potatoes, what is the frothy stuff on top of the water?!
Is it some kind of mineral!? Www@FoodAQ@Com
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potato starch - don't worry about it!. you can skim it off if you can be bothered but it makes no difference!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Potatoes have a very high concentration of a carbohydrate known as starch!. When you boil potatoes in a pan of water, some of the starch is released into the water and makes the water cloudy and sometimes forms a bubbly whitish foam!. Www@FoodAQ@Com
A potato is a carbohydrate so when you boil a carbohydrate like potatoes and pasta starch is released!. The reason you boil potatoes is to get rid of starch so in short the frothy stuff is starchWww@FoodAQ@Com
It's potato starch!. Save that potato water for making gravy, bread or biscuits!. It's good stuff!. I often freeze it in one cup containers!. I thaw it in the microwave and often add it to cream soups and stews too!.
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your brains probably!.!.otherwise you would of asked a better questionWww@FoodAQ@Com
Starch!.Www@FoodAQ@Com