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> Also it appears that sweet potatoes have a LOT more
> nutrition than white potatoes.


What do you mean by "a LOT"? I went through this with another poster a
while back with iceberg lettuce. The poster claimed that it had no
nutritional value, and that therefore only other kinds of lettuce should
be used. Well, that's just not true.

So I whipped out my trusty nutritional database, and compared white and
sweet potatoes:

http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/

I just didn't think that they were that different. The water, calories,
protein, fat, carbs and fiber were almost the same. Some of the other
nutrients were more different, but nothing really stood out.


> Having said that I was curious if anyone has given up
> eating white potatoes altogether?

Several people gave very good reasons to do this, either a reaction or
else they just didn't like them that well.

--
Dan Abel

Petaluma, California, USA