Microblog: Snack Swaps: Potato Chips vs. Pork Rinds
Even to my shock potatoes have a pretty decent amount of nutrition.
⚠️But potatoes have their share of risks.
🧪Many potatoes are modified with fortified nutrients. We don’t know how natural these potatoes are and what these added nutrients do to our body.
🍟If we consider how we eat potatoes, they’re usually as chips or fries—lathered in seed oils and forms of MSG.
🔎Even if potatoes are all natural, here’s some of the antinutrients from @carnivorecure’s Nutriment food toxin database: (only listing high and above antinutrients)
🔻Oxalates
🔻Trypsin
🔻Polyphenol (yes it can be an antinutrient in excess)
🔻Salicylates
🔻Lectins
🔻Flavonoids
🔻Tannins
🔻Nightshade
🔻High in Glycemic Index
⚠️If you suffer from gut issues or autoimmune illness, nightshades should probably be avoided.
🔥Nightshades (solanaceae) can stimulate an autoimmune disease to flare up.
🥔In fact, potato poisoning is a diagnosable illness.
🚨Potatoes and many other nightshades contain compounds such as solanine and other chemical plant toxins. Solanine is toxic to humans, often leading to systemic inflammation.
🔥The National Library of Medicine found that chemical plant toxins in nightshades can cause autoantibodies to cross-react, causing an increase in autoimmune disease.
🌟Removing nightshades was found to decrease inflammation as well as lower pain in joints and muscles and reduce brain symptoms.
❓So what’s the solution to lowering your risk of all of the above? It sure isn’t removing PUFAs.
⚠️While potatoes have a lot of nutrients, it also comes with a lot of antinutrients (plant toxins).
🐖Pork rinds never sounded so good.
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https://carnivorecure.com/nutriment/
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs11540-019-09431-2.pdf
PMCID: PMC7121345
PMID: 6338654
PMID: 30736445
https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=55885
