Preserve potassium when preparing potatoes

If you’re making mashed potatoes or many other potato dishes, what do you do?  Cube the potatoes and throw them in a pot of water to boil?  If you want to hang on to the potassium potatoes offer, it’s best to boil the potato whole – skin and all.  When potatoes are cubed or shredded then boiled, studies show a 75% loss of potassium.

Also, good news if you like to soak your potatoes in water overnight.  Soaking potatoes does not result in a significant loss of nutrients to the water they’re soaked in.

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