potato skin

Potatoes are inexpensive, delicious, and highly nutritious. They are rich in dietary fibers which help to increase satiety and reduce appetite, thereby, helping with weight loss and weight management. As much as potatoes are being eaten, only a few recipes call for the use of potato skins. The skins are usually regarded as waste and discarded after peeling them off. The general concern over how safe it is to eat potato skin emanated from the misconceptions about the glycoalkaloids - solanine, and chaconine present in potatoes. Let’s talk about questions about the safety of potato skin, and I will also…