Help me win or loose a disagreement with my lady friend. Is a potato a vegetable or starch?!
Answers: I say root vegetable that can be served as a starch. Validate me please.
YOU MY FRIEND ARE CORRECT
NOW GO INTO FRIENDLY FIRE MODE
It is a starchy vegetable. Just like carrots and beets
some veggies are starch and some are not
so
you are both right!
it is a starch....as are green peas and corn.....
po·ta·to [ p? táytō ] (plural po·ta·toes)
noun
Definition:
1. root vegetable: a rounded white tuber cooked in a variety of ways as a vegetable. Use: industrial source of starch.
both. starch is not part of the food pyramid!
Root vegetables are carrots, beets, yams, etc. Potato is a starch.
it is a vegetable that contains starch.
It is a great vegetable that's starchy that is really good. I myself prefer my starchy vegetable to be a baked potato with various toppings. French fries are good also but I don't have them often. Not because they are fattening but because I guess I'm lazy.
I'm no expert, but a potato is a starchy vegetable!!!