are sweet potatos good?

[cinemod]

i eat like 4-5 cups of it mashed. worried about gi/sugar. hard to find any other carb source i can down easily

[snorkelman]

... worried about gi/sugar.

Are you diabetic?

[cls91]

Are you diabetic or have any other blood sugar issues?

If no, then go ahead and consume them as long as you reach all other targets for the day.

[AAOBob]

Yea they are great, but NOT the way my mother made them. She would put so much damn brown sugar and then cover them with freaking marshmallows that they just tasted like some awful mashed concoction that escaped a unicorns *******.

I thought for 30 years they were nasty until I tried them cooked properly. Now they are a regular for me.

[NeroMaj]

A little milk, a little brown sugar, butter, and cinnamon and mash away!

[PBateman2]

^That.

Ballin!

[AAOBob]

A little milk, a little brown sugar, butter, and cinnamon and mash away!

Blech...

Here is my secret, perfected sweet potato recipe.

Bake the sweet potato, peel.
Add chipotle peppers, cut fine, and the adobo sauce.
Add salt.
Mash
Eat.

Tastes great, no extra carbs.

[cinemod]

nope, not diabetic. just figured the amount of sugar might make it unwise to consume in larger amounts. thanks

i bought like 7 today and almost ate them all

[KobiDC]

I prefer them over regular potatoes... they taste so good. Both potatoes have a good nutritional profile too.

You don't have to eat them if you don't like them though.

[snorkelman]

nearly ate 7 sweet potatoes? Well, so much for moderation. If they are like the sweet potatoes I buy, that would be over 1100 calories, not even talking about butter or sugar.

[cinemod]

i dont add anything to them. cept for homemade mushroom gravy.

[ScottAllan77]

Baked with butter and salt n pepper. Or sliced into fries tossed with oil and salt n pepper then baked. Bangin' at least once a week.

[Malaki100]

A little milk, a little brown sugar, butter, and cinnamon and mash away!

Yum

[SouthDakotaBrah]

fancy people ITT

I microwave mine for 3 minutes, slice them up and put cinnamon+stevia on

[HunterTheRed]

love me some sweet potatos, +real grassfed butter+ un soupçon of cinnamon

For some reason I always thought sweet potatos had a preferential glycemic value over regular potatos, so get em whenever I can. with a good cut of steak,grilled or even better,turkey. Dat deres some good eatin.

damn this treads makin me hungry

[TheLongRun]

Meh, I prefer Yukon Golds, slathered in butter.

Mad respect for the nutrient density of sweet potatoes, though.

[loganhart]

I don't like sweet potatos. So no, they arnt 'good'.

[Jcart159]

i eat like 4-5 cups of it mashed. worried about gi/sugar. hard to find any other carb source i can down easily

worrying about gi/sugar, not even once.

Baked, and then ate 2 pounds of sweet potatoes last night.



Topped with a little salt, 2 tablespoons of Kerrygold buter (nomnomnom) and then some maple syrup. Tasted like heaven, if heavens clouds were made out of pillowy sweet potato pancakes drizzled in butter and syrup.

[chzcake01]

i've always eaten them plain but now i'll have to try adding butter/syrup/cinnamon

[RunningFiend]

i've always eaten them plain but now i'll have to try adding butter/syrup/cinnamon

same I bake up a huge batch of potatos every night. Red, sweet, gold, white, russet, etc... and eat them plain. If you have to add stuff to you're sweet potatos you're doing it wrong. I always bake mine on 400 for an hour to 1.5 hours and it makes it realy crispy on the outside but soft and mushy on the inside.

[cinemod]

nutrition will differ from baked to boiled. think boil has a lot less gi.

[MG5]

Baked mashed sweet potato with melted peanut butter over it and some cinnamon is one of the greatest food combinations ever. So amazing. Can't believe no ones mentioned that yet.

[cinemod]

just looked it up and 4 cups give you 72 grams of sugar, twice the recommended intake of sugar

[gainleanmuscle]

stab the s*&^ out of them with a fork then bake them in the oven for an hour @ 400 & voila, taste great plain.

[RunningFiend]

just looked it up and 4 cups give you 72 grams of sugar, twice the recommended intake of sugar

No 4 cups of sweet potato gives you 24g of sugar. There is nothing wrong with naturally occuring sugars. I consume 150g sugar minimum everyday to support my endurance running and weight lifting and I have noticed that I have more energy to workout. The recommended intake of sugar is bs and is aimed towards obese americans who get all their sugar content from proccesed crap like poptarts.

[RunningFiend]

stab the s*&^ out of them with a fork then bake them in the oven for an hour @ 400 & voila, taste great plain.

Exactly what I do. I love the juice that pours comes out of the sweet potato and makes a little lake on the tin foil when baking. When I take it out and taste the liquid from the sweet potato when it's fresh out of the oven it tastes like pure candy.

[cinemod]

No 4 cups of sweet potato gives you 24g of sugar. There is nothing wrong with naturally occuring sugars. I consume 150g sugar minimum everyday to support my endurance running and weight lifting and I have noticed that I have more energy to workout. The recommended intake of sugar is bs and is aimed towards obese americans who get all their sugar content from proccesed crap like poptarts.

where did you get your numbers. im talking mashed not cubed.
http://www.fatsecret.com/calories-nu...onamount=1.000



i think ill switch to yams. same **** cept no sugar and actually more carbs and protein

[cinemod]

the nutrition between yams and sweet is diff on diff websites, makes my head hurt.

[1fapalldey]

ive only had sweet potato fries and they were ok id rather have regular fries

[ErikTheElectric]

nope, not diabetic. just figured the amount of sugar might make it unwise to consume in larger amounts. thanks

i bought like 7 today and almost ate them all

Then don't worry about GI, it's not necessary.