on fitday i've been using 'sweetpotato, baked in skin' for my microwaved sweetpotatoes, though i don't eat the skin. today i noticed the choice of 'sweetpotato, boiled withut skin,' and figured that might be more accurate, as i don't eat the skin. what i don't understand is how the numbers vary so much for a cup of each:
baked in skin: 206 calories, .22g fat, 48g carb, 3.5g protein.
boild w/out skin: 344 cal, .9g fat, 80g carb, 5.5g protein.
this makes no sense. even with the skin potato having more fiber, there's no accounting for 140 extra calories in the skinless. for the fiber in the skin to account for the difference, there would need to be 30g of fiber from the skin in *one* cup of mashed potato - that's barely more than one potato. what's going on?
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jaime
ibs-a (mostly d) // vegetarian
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