The potato: versatile & healthy

The potato is a versatile and indispensable product within the food patterns of a lot of consumers.

The Netherlands Nutrition Centre states that potatoes contain a lot of carbohydrates, natural fibres, proteins, vitamin B and minerals. Further potatoes contain also vitamin C. In comparison with other nutrition, potatoes contain not many calories. This makes the potato suitable as healthy nutrition (Voedingscentrum, 2008).

For further information about the potato and several nice recipes, we would recommend to take a look on www.voedingscentrum.nl (Netherlands Nutrition Centre)