Potatoes and yams are stem tubers. Sweet potatoes and cassava are root tubers. In nutrition literature, we call them tubers collectively. Whole Food Plant-Based doctors explain that tubers like potatoes, sweet potatoes and yams are underappreciated 'superfoods'!

Dr McDougall is a huge fan of potatoes. He has a 2-part lecture series extolling the virtues of potatoes.

Dr Greger offers some fascinating ideas! We can heat + chill + reheat them. We can pair them with special foods like vinegar and lemon, or broccoli to reduce glycemic index. Pigmented potatoes are best! And eating them in the morning is better than eating them at night from the perspective of blood sugar spikes.

Are potatoes really bad for chronic lifestyle diseases like diabetes and hypertension? This is a longstanding debate in nutrition circles going back several decades. The crux of the matter is described in Dr Greger's webinar and also in Jeff Novick's article.

Boiled potatoes were found to be the most satiating food in a study.

A short-term intervention called The Potato Hack is an effective weight loss technique! The idea is to consume only cooked potatoes (baked or boiled) every day for a few weeks. The ideas has been employed be celebrities like Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller magic show fame.

Sweet potatoes are awesome in both taste and nutrition! The Okinawans derived 69% of their calories from purple sweet potatoes!

Tubers like potatoes, yams & sweet potatoes have been an integral part of several cultures worldwide. The most notable are probably the Okinawans, one of the Blue Zone cultures. They consumed upwards of 65% of their calories from one specific plant: purple sweet potatoes!

Traditional Okinawans (one of the Blue Zone populations) derived a whopping 69% of total calories from sweet potatoes!

In his early videos from 2008, Dr Greger expressed concerns with acrylamide in french fries made from potatoes. In his 2021 webinar on potatoes, he mentioned that the acrylamide produced by baking potatoes is a non-concern.

Glycoalkaloids are a non-concern if we remove the green parts of raw potatoes, along with any 'eyes' that may have developed. But if we consume large quantities of potatoes, for example, in a Potato Diet or Potato Hack, Dr Greger advises peeling them.

In a webinar in 2021, Dr Greger classified potatoes as a yellow light food (to be eaten in moderation). However, other Whole Food Plant-Based doctors continue to see potatoes as a green light food (to be eaten in abundance).

A variety of fascinating potatoes are grown in the Andes mountains. Many of them may be seen at the Mistura Food Festival in Peru. The Aymara are a well documented with low disease rates who thrived on over 50% of their calories derived from potatoes.

A collection of miscellaneous videos by Whole Food Plant-Based advocates.