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Dumb question about boiling potatoes

So I’ve seen that boiled potatoes rate the highest on the satiety index. But boil save them for later and were to reheat them in a microwave does that mess how “satisfying” they will be. Not in taste only in how your body reacts to them.

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Answer

If you cook and then chill a potato, it forms resistant starch which lowers the glycemic index, which is a good thing for potatoes. After cooked & chilled, it will still have low GI when re-heated as leftovers.

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Water content is a key component to satiation. Compare boiled, baked and chips.Baked potatoes retain the highest water content whereas dried chips have the least.

For the same weight, air fried chips will have more calories because very little of that weight is water.

When you reheat in microwave, some water is lost heating the potato, thus lowering satiation.

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