What is a potato classified as? a vegetable or a starch?!
What is a potato classified as? a vegetable or a starch?
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Actually, it's a root or tuber. Also starchy.
A starch.
a very starchy vegetable???
A vegetable which contains starch
It's a starchy vegetable. There is no plant family called "starch"
It's a starchy vegetable. Difficult to grasp, isn't it?
As a food group, it is a vegetable. It has a lot of starch, so many on diets are warned to limit their potato intake, but potatoes can be a healthy choice when dieting-- they are filling and a nice baked potato, skin and all, is very healthy and a good addition to any diet, in moderation.
starchy vegetable. Technically it is a root (a tuber), but it is organic, and it is a vegetable.
Vegetable.
A starchy, root vegetable...?
A root tuber, which places it in the vegetable category......
Christopher
In weight watchers it counts as a starch. It isn't meat or grain so that puts it in the vegetable catergory for a different classification.