Potatoes

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    12 best foods for your immune system: Citrus fruit, sweet potatoes, garlic & more

    With the continuing spread of COVID-19 and RSV, your immune system needs all the help it can get.

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    Calling all pasta lovers: A low carb diet could shorten your lifespan

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    Why you should never store potatoes in the fridge

    Potatoes are a pesky foodstuff – when you put the oven on and open the cupboard, they’ll have gone green or grown eyes seemingly overnight. An article in the New Scientist looking into the health risks of eating potatoes examined acrylamide,  a chemical used in lots of industrial processes and found in potatoes when they’re cooked at high temperatures. When in the body, the substance is converted into glycidamide, which can bind to DNA and cause mutations – and while studies using animals show

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    Learn Handbag Designer Lee Savage's Scalloped Potato Recipe

    Photo: Getty Images Designer Lee Savage, whose clutches have been worn by Naomi Watts, Jessica Alba, and Kate Hudson,  is a Southern native who began her career as an interior designer. She loves cooking from old family recipes and entertaining with friends. “One of my favorite family recipes and comfort foods is my mom’s scalloped potatoes,” she says. “It’s typically reserved for Christmas, but she makes this, and so do I, on other occasional appearances throughout the year, and it’s always del

  • NewsMarie-Claire Dorking

    People Are Loving This Little Girl’s Deep Snapchat About Potatoes

    Little Noor’s deep as heck musings on how ‘people are like’ potatoes are currently breaking the Internet after her sister shared her Snapchats on Twitter. When she later looked on Snapchat, she saw her sister had turned the chore into sort of life lesson that’s pretty profound, not to mention totally spot on. Noor’s next snap showed two peeled potatoes next to an unpeeled one.

  • NewsGail Johnson

    The 9 most addictive carbs -- and how to kick your habit

    Manhattan family doctor Bruce Roseman used to be addicted to foods like bread and pasta. In fact, Roseman says that new brain imaging techniques from the emerging field of addiction neuroscience show that a certain carbs—which he calls “addictocarbs”—stimulate the addiction and pleasure centres of the brain, causing irresistible cravings just like opioids. Roseman, who also holds joint appointments at Mount Sinai Hospital in the departments of family medicine and OB/GYN, says he was overweight