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01/5You can eat potatoes while trying to lose weight
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Who doesn’t like crispy tikis, masala coated French fries, sizzling hot aloo parathas and aloo sabzi with fluffy pooris? The tragedy of potatoes is their erosion from the diet chart prepared to reduce weight. The researchers had tested a technique that helps to make our bodies digest potato starch slowly thus not disturbing our blood sugar levels or risking our weight loss process. So, choose to have humble potatoes in right ways without worrying about your waistline. Read: Healthy and delicious sandwich recipes to help you lose weight
02/5Simple technique to cook potatoes the right way
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Boil potatoes, cool and freeze them as it reduces the GI in potatoes significantly that makes it healthier and more nutritious. Now blanch them in 28gms of diluted white vinegar as with this process 30-40% of GI levels gets reduced. You can also add few drops of lemon instead of vinegar but remember vinegar is more potent when it comes to reduction of GI levels. Even the doctors recommend the diabetic patients to use vinegar in their diet as it helps to control the blood sugar levels.
03/5Other methods to reduce the process of starch formation in potatoes
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1.Cut potatoes into cubes and blanch them in hot water for 30 minutes, cool them slightly and then cook this lowers the Glycemic Index and is more digestible. 2. Cook potatoes by boiling, steaming or microwaving them without adding other ingredients. Preparing potatoes in this manner will ensure that they are very low in salt, sugar and fat. 3.Another method of cooking potato the healthy way is to cook it with its skin this provides fiber to the body. 4.Consumption of 2 servings of cooked broccoli with 1 serving of mashed potatoes significantly reduces the glycemic index.
04/5Slower the process of starch release from potatoes
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A team of potato lovers discovered two critical enzymes in our small intestine that releases glucose slowly from potatoes. Normally these enzymes move faster, the starch in the potatoes is quicky degraded by the enzymes and gets converted to glucose rapidly. If the starch in the potatoes gets degraded slowly then the process of digestion slows down thus preventing the usual rapid blood sugar increase. If the starch is slowly degraded, then the potatoes cannot be harmful for diabetics or mar our weight loss process.
05/5What not to pair white potato with
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Do not add tuna fish or chicken breast to potatoes, it doubles the amount of insulin your body must pump out. Animal proteins make things worse while plant proteins make things better because branched-chain amino acids improve metabolic rate. So relish potatoes the right way without deleting them from your diet.
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