The potato came to Russia thanks to Peter I. It was introduced from South America in the 16th century. For a long time, the tubers did not take root in the life of the Russian people. The Russian people did not want to recognize the "second bread". It took the Russians two centuries to appreciate the benefits of potatoes, taste and nutritional value... During the cultivation of a new culture, many recipes were invented, now their number has already exceeded a hundred. And no one can imagine a table without delicious potatoes. It is customary to eat potatoes thermally processed. In this case, the starch contained in the tubers leaves the cells and becomes usable. In its raw form, starch is not digested by the gastrointestinal tract.

But some people just love to eat raw potatoes... From a medical point of view, this is not very useful. If not harmful. Tubers not sufficiently washed from the ground can be carriers of worm eggs. And lover raw potatoes is at risk of helminthic invasion.

Another reason why you can't eat raw potatoes is the presence of solanine plant poison in the tubers and peel. If you notice that the skin of the potato has turned green, you need to cut it off as thickly as possible, or even better, throw away the whole potato.

Solanine is a substance found in plants of the nightshade family such as eggplants, tomatoes and potatoes. The content of poison in all parts of plants is high, but a record amount is found in the green parts: stems and leaves.

Solanine is contained in a potato tuber in an amount of 0.05%, and much more in the green parts. Light poisoning can cause the content of 20 mg solanine. If it enters the body in an amount of 200-400 mg, it is fatal.

Signs of solanine poisoning:

1. Nausea
2. Vomit
3. Stomach ache
4. Loose stools
5. Lump in throat
6. Bitterness in the mouth

A couple of hours after the ingress of solanine into the blood, symptoms of poisoning become noticeable, which are manifested by nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. The poison affects the nervous, cardiac and excretory systems. An increase in the concentration of the toxin leads to breathing problems and difficulty in urine flow. Further, the action of the poison continues to affect the vascular system and this is expressed in a decrease in blood pressure, heart rhythm disturbances and malfunctioning of the heart. The poison affects red blood cells, destroying them. Death occurs due to the inhibition of the activity of the respiratory center located in the brain.

Assisting with solanine poisoning:

Help with suspected solanine poisoning should be provided quickly, and it should be started at home.

• Gastric lavage with potassium permanganate solution (potassium permanganate solution)
• ingest sorbents, such as activated and white charcoal, which will allow the body to bind the poison that has not had time to be absorbed.
• drinking enveloping liquids. All kinds of jelly, milk and egg white.

All these actions are carried out on suspicion of poisoning. And there is a prerequisite. An ambulance must be called. Since the main rescue activities are carried out in the hospital. The hospital continues gastric lavage, with the help of droppers, they maintain the water-salt balance, improve the functioning of the kidneys and conduct symptomatic therapy aimed at restoring the work of all body systems.

Prevention of solanine poisoning:

1. Don't eat raw potatoes
2. Seeing a green tuber, it is recommended to throw it away.
3. Observe the storage regime for potatoes: store in a cool dry place, without access to sunlight, in a well-ventilated area.
4. The solanine in eggplant can be neutralized by simply peeling it off.
5. Eat green tomatoes only in canned form.

Do not forget the conditions in which potatoes are grown. A huge amount of toxic substances. First, they poison the weeds from the site, and then they begin to fight the beetle. During the growing season, the beetle is poisoned up to three times. All the poison will certainly settle in the ground, and then in the tubers. When eating raw potatoes, toxic effects on the body will cause symptoms of poisoning. When preparing tubers, poisons are destroyed and their effect on the body is not so intense and destructive.

All manufacturers of poisons to protect against the Colorado potato beetle are silent about the harm they cause to the body, but it is there. It is worth remembering this.

Potatoes have always been a favorite product of many lovers of tasty and satisfying food. It is popular in many European countries and not only. It is fried, boiled, stewed, baked, and it is a pity that during heat treatment it loses a large amount nutrients that are necessary for the human body.

In order to get the most out of the tuber all its useful contents, you need not be afraid to eat raw potatoes. It tastes somewhat like Jerusalem artichoke, its varieties are sweetish and dryish-mealy.

Young potatoes are considered the most useful (from June to October), since at this time they are especially juicy, tasty and rich in many useful substances. Its yellow peel indicates the usefulness of the product and the content. a large number carotene.

All vitamins and minerals are concentrated under the skin of the tuber, so it can be consumed unrefined.

In order for a raw product to only benefit your body, you need to choose it correctly. It should be young, grown in an ecologically clean area, free of mineral fertilizers and pesticides. You can not eat green potatoes, they contain the so-called corned beef, which is very harmful to the body.

Before use, the potatoes must be thoroughly washed and, for greater confidence in their cleanliness, pour over with boiling water.

Potato composition

Raw potatoes are good for your health as they are a source of many vitamins, minerals and organic acids... It contains fiber, carbohydrates, pectin and proteins: tuberin, globulin, peptone and albumin.

Potatoes are rich in the following vitamins: A, B1, B2, B5, B6, E, C, PP, as well as minerals: calcium, potassium, magnesium, iodine, copper, sodium, phosphorus, zinc, nickel, cobalt, manganese and boron.

Potatoes are very nutritious, they contain a large amount of starch, that is, glucose, which supplies the human body with the necessary energy. This root vegetable contains complete plant proteins that provide 14 amino acids that are very beneficial for the body.

The calorie content of raw potatoes is relatively small: 100 g of the product contains 77 calories.

8 health benefits of raw potatoes

1. Prevents the development of atherosclerosis

   Raw potatoes, due to the many beneficial substances they contain, prevent the appearance and development of atherosclerosis. By lowering cholesterol in the blood and liver, it reduces the risk of narrowing or clogging of blood vessels in the brain. By eating raw potatoes, we carry out prophylaxis of the body against many dangerous vascular diseases. Compress from grated potatoes relieves even a lingering headache.

2. Fights Heart Disease

   Potato skins contain a very useful element for the cores - potassium. It helps to remove excess fluid from the body, which safely prevents swelling of the extremities. A raw or baked root vegetable improves heart function, it is equally good for the liver and kidneys.

3. Treats eye diseases

   The skin of potatoes contains many vitamins, including vitamin A. It is very useful for treating many eye diseases and improving vision in patients. A compress of raw potatoes applied to the eyelids will relieve inflammation and redness of the eyes under heavy visual stress.

4. Treats Sprains and Sprains

   Raw grated potatoes are used to treat dislocations and muscle sprains. Potato gruel compresses applied to a sore spot relieve painful sensations and relieve inflammation. Bumps, abrasions and bruises, burns and insect bites are all healed by raw potatoes.

5. Disinfects the oral cavity

   Potato juice is an excellent natural remedy that helps fight ENT diseases, in particular laryngitis and pharyngitis. This product treats periodontitis, stomatitis and other oral diseases. This therapeutic effect of potatoes is due to its antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties.

6. Benefits for the stomach

   Potatoes contain fiber, which is known to improve digestion and stimulate the elimination of food from the body. Raw potato juice is good for constipation and nausea. It successfully removes all harmful toxins and decay products from the body, ridding our bodies of the negative effects of alcohol and certain medications.

7. Strengthens the immune system

   Potato tubers contain vitamin C, which strengthens the immune system and helps the body fight many diseases, including colds. It is useful to eat it in the autumn-winter period, when infectious and viral diseases are actively spreading. A large set of vitamins and trace elements of the root vegetable will strengthen the body and make its immune system stronger.

8. Improves skin condition

   A large amount of trace elements and vitamins, in particular vitamin E, which are found in potatoes, help to improve the condition of the skin, make it smooth and silky. Traditional medicine often uses raw potatoes to improve facial skin. Raw potato face mask treats acne, teenage acne (acne), helps fight breakouts and even age spots.

The benefits of raw potato juice

Raw potato juice is beneficial to the body, but, unfortunately, if used ineptly, it can also be harmful. Therefore, you need to correctly approach the selection, preparation and treatment of root crops.

The benefits of juice young potatoes lies in the fact that it has the acids necessary for the body: ascorbic and folic, as well as vitamins and minerals. Well-balanced amino acids can be perfectly absorbed and not create problems for the body. The juice has a beneficial effect on metabolism and, due to its alkalizing properties, neutralizes excess acids.

Potato treatment

Young potato tubers are successfully used in folk medicine for the treatment of many diseases. It is used for both external and internal use. They treat boils, abscesses and hemorrhoids, it is used for joint diseases, arthritis and arthrosis, they are also treated for many skin diseases.

Potato juice is no less useful for the treatment of internal organs. It has analgesic, regenerating, anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic and tonic properties. The juice helps to restore disturbed metabolism, cleanses from toxins, treats gastritis and ulcers, hypertension, pancreatitis, fibroids and many other diseases.

There are many recipes for preparing and using young potatoes for medicinal purposes. You should choose the one that is convenient to prepare and is right for you.

You need to know that half a glass of freshly squeezed juice of young potatoes, taken half an hour before meals for a week, will reduce the likelihood of developing many diseases many times over.

Grandma's secrets

Cutting potatoes in half can help get rid of warts. To do this, rub them with a cut of half a tuber.

How to properly prepare potato juice

In order to prepare fresh potato juice, you need to choose the right potato tubers and wash them thoroughly. You need to choose potatoes young, with a light yellow skin, in no case green and not damaged. Next, you need to grind, i.e. grind the potatoes until gruel forms. You can use either a blender or a fine grater here. We squeeze the extracted gruel with gauze folded several times and get fresh juice.

To get half a glass of fresh juice, you need three to four medium potato tubers. You need to drink the juice right away, because after 5-10 minutes your healing drink will darken, because all components are oxidized due to interaction with oxygen.

Contraindications and harm

If potatoes are not stored properly (under the influence of light), their rind may turn greenish. This means that solanine has accumulated in it - a substance that is very hazardous to health. It is strictly forbidden to eat such potatoes, especially for pregnant women, in addition to poisoning, solanine can provoke a pathology in the development of a future baby.

Eating raw potatoes is contraindicated in sick diabetes mellitus, people with developing obesity, as well as with low acidity.

Potatoes are a very controversial product from the point of view of live nutrition. On the one hand, in the traditional diet about potatoes, almost songs make up this and the second bread and a lot of other things. Plus, potatoes are relatively cheap. I remember the days in the 90s when my family ate mainly potatoes and pasta. On the other hand, fried potatoes, fries, fried potatoes with meat are very unhealthy.
It is interesting that potatoes ousted from the tables of Russians another primordially Russian product - turnips, even boiled, which has very many useful properties... For example, it is very cool to cleanse the body.
And what about if you can eat raw potatoes. Vadim Zeland answers in two ways. In one place, he writes that, like potatoes and zucchini in raw form, it is not worth eating because of the large amount of starch (but as we will see further, this problem can in principle be solved). In another, he speaks out softer: if the taste of raw potatoes seems normal, then you can eat, if the taste is unpleasant, then you shouldn't. As the saying goes, everyone chooses for himself.
On Zeland, the light did not converge like a wedge. Stoleshnikov recommends eating potatoes along with the peel, rinsing thoroughly with water.
But first you probably need to talk about corned beef... This is a poisonous substance contained in potatoes, which they like to scare very much. Here, too, everything is very interesting.It turns out that the content of corned beef in potatoes is not constant. In unripe potatoes, it is very large, but as it ripens, it decreases and in ripe fruits the content of corned beef is not at all significant. They even claim that such a small amount of corned beef is beneficial. But by the spring, the concentration of poison in the tubers increases again. This means that it makes sense to store potatoes until spring only for planting. You can't eat such potatoes. And the green potatoes lying in the sun are poisonous.
A few numbers. The amount of corned beef less than 20-30 mg is safe for health. More poison. 200mg threatens with severe poisoning. Only for this you need to devour a kilogram of potatoes in a place with a peel. 500 mg - death is possible.
During heat treatment, corned beef does not collapse, although during cooking it partially goes into solution, if you peel the peel, the dose of corned beef is almost halved.
As you can see, corned beef is not so terrible as it is painted. The next post will have some raw potato recipes. In the meantime, an additional argument in favor of potatoes is an excerpt from N. Danikov's book "Healing Vegetables and Herbs" about the benefits of raw potatoes:
"In past centuries, raw potato juice was drunk to grow hair and strengthen teeth.
The protein of potato tubers - tuberin - has the highest biological value of all known plant proteins. It is similar in nature to human protein and is therefore fully digestible. It has the greatest similarity in amino acid composition with human milk; in the content of histidine and lysine, which ensure the growth and development of the skeleton, it surpasses mother's milk.
Of particular value in potato protein is the amino acid lysine, which is almost absent in other plant products. If we take the usefulness of egg white as 100%, then the usefulness of potato will be 85%, wheat - 64%. The amount of lysine in the tuber is equal to 123% of its amount in egg white... Thus, 10 g of potato protein replaces 7 g of an animal. Daily intake 100 g of potatoes provides 30% of the human body with protein and essential amino acids.
It must be remembered that potato protein is found mainly under the skin of the tuber.
The uniqueness of potatoes as a medicinal plant and irreplaceable food product consists in the fact that it combines in optimal quantities vitamins C and P, which provides in the body not only the most important redox reactions, but also the prevention and treatment of many diseases: rheumatism, tuberculosis, scurvy, ulcerative colitis, diabetes mellitus, etc.
The presence of a large amount of potassium in potatoes (570 mg%). vitamin B1 (thiamine) -0.30 mg% and phosphorus-60 mg% makes potatoes an irreplaceable cardiological agent.
It is good to know that the content of vitamins in tubers is especially high in autumn, as well as in young potatoes. By spring, the amount of vitamin C is 30% of the original.
In spring, potatoes should only be eaten peeled, due to the high content of solanine. In large doses, it causes poisoning, in small doses, it is useful.
Raw tubers, well washed and finely peeled, are consumed starting from 20-30 g per day, gradually increasing the amount to 100-150 g once or twice a day for gout, rheumatism, osteochondrosis, heart disease, intoxication of various origins, anemia, peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenal ulcer, "hungry" night pains, etc.
Potatoes are able to normalize the acid-base balance of the body, digestion processes, intestinal microflora, bind bile acids, etc.
Removal of intoxication and removal from the body of nitrates and nitrites, excess cholesterol, toxic products of various origins is ensured by the content of starch, pectin and vitamin B6 in potatoes. "
P.S. You can also eat raw Jerusalem artichoke and sweet potato.

Potatoes are a very controversial product from the point of view of live nutrition. On the one hand, in the traditional diet about potatoes, almost songs make up this and the second bread and a lot of other things. Plus, potatoes are relatively cheap. I remember the days in the 90s when my family ate mainly potatoes and pasta. On the other hand, fried potatoes, fries, fried potatoes with meat are very unhealthy.
It is interesting that potatoes ousted from the tables of Russians another primordially Russian product - turnips, even boiled, which has very many useful properties. For example, it is very cool to cleanse the body.
And what about if you can eat raw potatoes. Vadim Zeland answers in two ways. In one place, he writes that, like potatoes and zucchini in raw form, it is not worth eating because of the large amount of starch (but as we will see further, this problem can in principle be solved). In another, he speaks out softer: if the taste of raw potatoes seems normal, then you can eat, if the taste is unpleasant, then you shouldn't. As the saying goes, everyone chooses for himself.
On Zeland, the light did not converge like a wedge. Stoleshnikov recommends eating potatoes along with the peel, rinsing thoroughly with water.
But first you probably need to talk about corned beef... This is a poisonous substance contained in potatoes, which they like to scare very much. Here, too, everything is very interesting.It turns out that the content of corned beef in potatoes is not constant. In unripe potatoes, it is very large, but as it ripens, it decreases and in ripe fruits the content of corned beef is not at all significant. They even claim that such a small amount of corned beef is beneficial. But by the spring, the concentration of poison in the tubers increases again. This means that it makes sense to store potatoes until spring only for planting. You can't eat such potatoes. And the green potatoes lying in the sun are poisonous.
A few numbers. The amount of corned beef less than 20-30 mg is safe for health. More poison. 200mg threatens with severe poisoning. Only for this you need to devour a kilogram of potatoes in a place with a peel. 500 mg - death is possible.
During heat treatment, corned beef does not collapse, although during cooking it partially goes into solution, if you peel the peel, the dose of corned beef is almost halved.
As you can see, corned beef is not so terrible as it is painted. The next post will have some raw potato recipes. In the meantime, an additional argument in favor of potatoes is an excerpt from N. Danikov's book "Healing Vegetables and Herbs" about the benefits of raw potatoes:
"In past centuries, raw potato juice was drunk to grow hair and strengthen teeth.
The protein of potato tubers - tuberin - has the highest biological value of all known plant proteins. It is similar in nature to human protein and is therefore fully digestible. It has the greatest similarity in amino acid composition with human milk; in the content of histidine and lysine, which ensure the growth and development of the skeleton, it surpasses mother's milk.
Of particular value in potato protein is the amino acid lysine, which is almost absent in other plant products. If we take the usefulness of egg white as 100%, then the usefulness of potato will be 85%, wheat - 64%. The amount of lysine in the tuber is equal to 123% of its amount in the egg white. Thus, 10 g of potato protein replaces 7 g of an animal. The daily consumption of 100 g of potatoes provides 30% of the human body with protein and essential amino acids.
It must be remembered that potato protein is found mainly under the skin of the tuber.
The uniqueness of the potato as a medicinal plant and an irreplaceable food product is that it combines in optimal quantities vitamins C and P, which provides in the body not only the most important redox reactions, but also the prevention and treatment of many diseases: rheumatism, tuberculosis, scurvy. , ulcerative colitis, diabetes mellitus, etc.
The presence of a large amount of potassium in potatoes (570 mg%). vitamin B1 (thiamine) -0.30 mg% and phosphorus-60 mg% makes potatoes an irreplaceable cardiological agent.
It is good to know that the content of vitamins in tubers is especially high in autumn, as well as in young potatoes. By spring, the amount of vitamin C is 30% of the original.
In spring, potatoes should only be eaten peeled, due to the high content of solanine. In large doses, it causes poisoning, in small doses, it is useful.
Raw tubers, well washed and finely peeled, are consumed starting from 20-30 g per day, gradually increasing the amount to 100-150 g once or twice a day for gout, rheumatism, osteochondrosis, heart disease, intoxication of various origins, anemia, peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenal ulcer, "hungry" night pains, etc.
Potatoes are able to normalize the acid-base balance of the body, digestion processes, intestinal microflora, bind bile acids, etc.
Removal of intoxication and removal from the body of nitrates and nitrites, excess cholesterol, toxic products of various origins is ensured by the content of starch, pectin and vitamin B6 in potatoes. "
P.S. You can also eat raw Jerusalem artichoke and sweet potato.

It is simply impossible, at least very difficult, to cross out potatoes from the usual menu. Someone eats this second bread more, someone less - but almost everyone eats. And some are not even overly addicted to it. dietary product... How to be pregnant? And is it true that many expectant mothers strangely want raw potatoes?

So are potatoes good for pregnancy?

It is believed that for 100 g of potatoes - 77 kcal. And these are proteins, and fats, and vitamins, and carbohydrates. Potatoes contain B vitamins, vitamins A, H, PP, C. Potatoes also contain enough potassium, calcium, iron, sodium, zinc, phosphorus, copper, chromium, iodine. But potatoes are, to put it mildly, hearty dish... Therefore, overeating is not worth it.

Pregnant women often crave fried potatoes or fries. Well, if you really want to, then you can. But! Not more than a couple of times a month and a very modest plate. Fried food is not the right food, it is unhealthy food for everyone, not just pregnant women. So, "make a frying pan of potatoes" - this is how you should not feel sorry for yourself! But what kind of potatoes are there then?

Boiled, baked, mashed potatoes are three acceptable options. Bake potatoes in the oven without oil. But try not to combine it with other vegetables and meats. Let a light, low-component salad go with the side dish. You shouldn't eat potatoes all the time, you don't need to include them in the menu more than three times a week. Many women like to drink a cup of kefir or milk with boiled potatoes - well, that's also a good option. Just let it be lunch or afternoon tea, but not dinner.

Why fried potatoes are harmful during pregnancy

Nutritionists compare fried potatoes to a bun with butter. Yes, delicious, but how unhealthy. Overweight amateurs fried potatoes provided. If you go deeper into the question, then you can dwell on this fact - if the frying temperature rises to 110 degrees, fatty acid molecules are split off from unsaturated fatty acids. They then break down, and toxic isomers - ketones and aldehydes - are formed. Therefore, when frying, oil turns into, imagine, drying oil.

These toxic compounds act as free radicals that slag the body, settle on the walls of blood vessels, wearing them out faster. And it is not so important in what oil to fry, there are no harmless oils.

It is also harmful to eat potatoes, because:

• When frying it is very much salted;
• Fried potatoes are often watered with various harmful high-calorie sauces;
• The dish warms up the appetite, you want to eat even more.

Let fried young potatoes be a rare dish, therefore valuable and harmless. But if you gobble it up every week, your body won't thank you. And excess weight, which is often a problem for pregnant women, will certainly appear.

In what form can vitamins and minerals be obtained from potatoes?

Potatoes have enough vitamins, they are satisfying and very available product that just needs to learn how to cook. Such potatoes are useful - the whole family, including the child, can eat it. For example, baked potatoes.

How to make baked potatoes in a short time:

• Wash 8-10 tubers of young potatoes, dry with a napkin;
• Salt each potato a little, wrap it in foil;
• Put the potatoes on a baking sheet, with a distance from each other;
• Potatoes are baked for 35 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees;
• Sprinkle the finished potatoes with finely chopped fresh herbs.

Some housewives grease the foil butter, but you don't have to. Someone likes to pour sour cream on such potatoes, someone eats it with light salad... And someone else prefers such baked potatoes with cold summer beetroot to everything else.

What a pregnant woman does not eat: why you want raw potatoes

Some expectant mothers find the smell of potatoes incredibly attractive. More precisely, the smell of the cellar where these potatoes are stored. Others may drink potato juice that is not very tasty. And the third just want to bite off raw potatoes. What does this mean?

There is a lot of controversy about the strange tastes of pregnant women - most likely, the body lacks some trace elements, or hormonal changes so influenced the woman's taste. There is a lot of potassium in potatoes, which removes excess water from the body, it is possible that this may become the underlying cause of such strange desires.

Try to use only fresh potatoes, by the spring the amount of the same vitamin C in potatoes that were stored in the winter is already very low. Do not eat sprouted potatoes - they are completely dangerous, even harmful substances are produced in old potatoes. But young, boiled or baked, and with herbs - this is a real holiday. And if you really want potatoes every day, then 3 things is the limit.

Of course, potatoes are also in the form of potato pancakes, dumplings, dumplings. This is very delicious dishes, but heavy, so there is no need to part with them. And dumplings with meat and mushrooms are not a dish for every stomach. If you really love these dishes, then at least reduce the portion. It's not even worth talking about fast food potatoes - how they fried, in what oil, what kind of potatoes, one can only guess. Never take risks, not only during pregnancy.

Nutrition during pregnancy, what is possible and what is not (video)

Almost everyone loves potatoes, not only expectant mothers. Remember that it is useful boiled and baked (without oil). Do not eat old potatoes, do not excessively salt them, do not combine with other hearty foods.

Good recipes and healthy pregnancy!