Purple-fleshed Potatoes Inhibit Tumor Cells
You may not have heard but bear in mind that potato juice has been used for ages as a natural pain reliever and to help with digestive problems and constipation.
Potatoes have a positive effect on the condition of muscles and joints, as well as skin, hair, and nails. They have a calming effect, but they also help boost immunity, positively affect blood vessels and the heart, lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels, and adjust metabolism and hematopoiesis.
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Essential Vitamins and Minerals
Potatoes are loaded with potassium, magnesium, calcium, zinc, fluorine, phosphorus, copper, and iron. Your body needs these minerals for normal heart and blood functioning. Potatoes contribute to your healthy diet; just make sure not to prepare them with loads of fat. Steaming or baking will do fine. However, to best preserve the minerals and vitamins, try raw potato juice. Potato Juice is full of Vitamins A, C, and B, and protein!
Potato pigment also plays an important role. Dark yellow or orange potatoes are high in the carotenoid zeaxanthin, which is essential for good vision and can help cure certain eye diseases. Purple-fleshed potatoes contain high amounts of anthocyanins, which help inhibit tumor cells. According to a study published in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry in August 2015, baked purple-fleshed potatoes (a good source of anthocyanins and phenolic acids) slow the growth of colon cancer tumors in mice by increasing the apoptosis of the colon cancer stem cells. After four weeks, mice that consumed purple potato extract had about 50 percent fewer colon cancer tumors compared to the control group.
Treat Acne with Potatoes
Usually the same foods that are good for your health are good for your skin, and potatoes are no exception.
To help get rid of your pimples, put a slice of potato over each area where you notice pimples, let it sit there for 15 minutes, and then wash it off. For severe acne, prepare a potato mask. Peel and grate one larger potato, apply it as a mask to your skin, and let it work for 30 minutes before washing off. Apply it twice a day – in the morning and in the evening. After one week, your skin should begin clearing up significantly. Add raw potato drinks to also help clean your skin from the inside. According to the server Acne.org, potato treatments were rated an average of 4.7 out of 5 and 95% of members would recommend it to a friend.
Improve Hair Growth
To make your hair grow faster, add shine, and keep your scalp healthy, use fresh potato juice (about four potatoes will do) and gently massage it on your scalp. The massage should last about 10 minutes. Then use a wide-toothed comb and comb from the roots to the ends and let the mask sit. For better results, cover your hair with a shower cap or a plastic wrap. Rinse it off after 20 minutes. Apply this mask once a week.
How to Prepare Potato Juice
The juice of a potato is very alkaline. It helps to counteract excess acid for treating gastritis, colic, and gastric ulcers.
Before preparing the juice, make sure to get the healthiest potatoes possible with no pesticide residues, no sprouts, and no green marks, which contain toxins. Organic is preferred.
Always prepare and drink the juice fresh. Clean the potatoes thoroughly but don’t peel them; the skin contains a lot of those important vitamins and minerals. You will need a good performance juicer. The taste is not great, but you can add honey, herbs, or mix in carrots or apples. If you do not have a juicer, simply use a blender and make a smoothie to better preserve all of the nutrients from the potato skin. You can also add a raw potato to other smoothie recipes. If not a fan of smoothies — these would be pretty thick — then use a fine mesh strainer and press the mixture through it with a spatula to extract the juice.
Benefits
Weight Gain: Potatoes are primarily made of carbohydrates and contain very little protein. This makes it an ideal diet for those excessively lean or thin people who desperately want to put on weight. The vitamin content includes vitamin-C and B-complex, which also help in proper absorption of carbohydrates. That is one of the reasons that potatoes make up a large part of the diet of sumo wrestlers, as well as many other athletes who need large energy reserves to burn off in order to compete!
Digestion: Since potatoes predominantly contain carbohydrates, they are easy to digest and facilitate digestion. This property makes them a good diet for babies or for those who cannot digest hard food, but need energy. However, remember that eating too many potatoes on a regular basis may cause acidity over time. Potatoes also contain a considerable amount of fiber or roughage, more in raw potato and cold ones than boiled or hot ones. This stimulates peristaltic motion and increased secretion of gastric juices, which eases digestion and prevents conditions like constipation and protects the body from more serious conditions like colorectal cancer. Fiber is also connected with scraping cholesterol out of the arteries and blood vessels, thereby increasing heart health.
Skin Care: Vitamin-C and B-complex as well as minerals like potassium, magnesium, phosphorus and zinc are good for the skin. Apart from that, pulp obtained from crushed raw potatoes, mixed with honey, can work well in skin and face packs. This even helps to cure pimples and spots on the skin. Again, this pulp, if applied externally on burns, provides quick relief and faster healing. Smashed potatoes, and even water in which potatoes have been washed, are very good for softening and cleaning skin, especially around the elbows, and the back of the hands.
Scurvy: The vitamin-C present in potatoes can help prevent this disease, caused by a deficiency of vitamin-C. It is characterized by cracked lip corners, spongy and bleeding gums, and frequent viral infections. Although it has been eliminated from most first and second world countries with ready access to vitamin C, it still exists in certain nations of the world, so the prolific presence of potatoes in the world helps with this problem.
Rheumatism: There are two parts to the effect of potatoes on this condition. Vitamins like the calcium and magnesium help to provide relief from rheumatism. Also, water obtained from boiling potatoes can relieve the pain and inflammation of rheumatism. However, due to high starch and carbohydrate content, it tends to increase body weight which may have adverse effects on rheumatic people. It is a fine balance, so you must apply it as a helpful approach without consuming the potato itself.
Inflammation: Potatoes are very effective in reducing inflammation, both internal and external. Since it is soft, easily digested and has a lot of vitamin-C (a very good antioxidant that repairs tissue wear and tear), potassium and vitamin-B6, it can relieve any inflammation of the intestines and the digestive system. It is a very good dietary element for those who have mouth ulcers as well. Therefore, people who suffer from arthritis and gout can use potatoes for their anti-inflammatory impact, but again, since it can add to weight gain, which exacerbates these conditions, and is commonly eaten with meat and other rich foods that make gout worse, a fine balance must be struck.
Cancer Prevention: Certain types of potatoes, particularly red and russet ones, contain high levels of flavonoid antioxidants and vitamin A like zeaxanthin and carotenes, they can protect you against many types of cancer. Also, research at the Agricultural Research service has shown that potatoes contain a compound called quercetin, which has been proven to have anti-cancer and anti-tumor properties. Finally, the high levels of vitamin A and C both have antioxidant qualities that can protect your body from the devastating effects of cancer.
High Blood Pressure: Since high blood pressure can occur for a number of reasons that include diabetes, tension, indigestion, nutrient balance, food content and many others, different treatments are required. Luckily, potatoes can alleviate multiple possible causes; potatoes can be used to relieve high blood pressure due to tension. They can also treat indigestion due to abundance of vitamin-C and fiber within it, but they should be avoided if the high blood pressure is a result of diabetes. The fiber present in it is helpful in lowering cholesterol and improves functioning of insulin in the body, which aids in the lowering of blood pressure. This is because there is a direct relation between blood pressure and the glucose level in the blood; insulin helps to regulates that glucose level. Furthermore, the potassium found in potatoes (46% of daily requirement per serving) lowers blood pressure, since potassium functions as a vasodilator.
Potato benefits Brain Function: Proper functioning of the brain depends largely on the glucose level, oxygen supply, various components of the vitamin-B complex and certain hormones, amino acids and fatty acids like omega-3. Potatoes cater to almost all the needs mentioned above. They are high in carbohydrates, and thereby maintain good levels of glucose in the blood. This prevents the brain from letting fatigue creep in and it keeps your cognitive activity and performance high. Next, the brain needs oxygen, which is carried to the brain by the hemoglobin in the blood; its main constituent is iron. Potatoes contain iron as well. Therefore, they help deliver oxygen to the brain as well. There are a wide variety of vitamins and minerals in potatoes that positively affect the function of the brain, including phosphorus, zinc, and the B complex vitamins. The vasodilating properties of potassium have also been connected to stimulation of brain function due to increased blood flow to that essential organ.
Heart Diseases: Apart from the vitamins (B-complex, C), minerals and roughage, potatoes also contain certain substances called Carotenoids (lutein, zeaxanthin). Carotenoids are beneficial for heart health and the functioning of other internal organs. Again, since potatoes raises the glucose level in the blood and over-consumption may cause obesity, which puts pressure on your heart, you must be careful about how often you use potatoes for this health benefit. This method of preventing heart disease is not recommended for obese or diabetic people.
Kidney Stones: Kidney Stones, also known as Renal Calculi, are caused mainly due to increased levels of uric acid in the blood. In such cases, foods high in protein should be avoided, particularly animal proteins such as meat, turkey, shrimp, fish, eggs, and milk, as well as spinach, raw plantain, black grams and certain beans, which drastically increase the level of uric acid in the blood. Iron and calcium also contribute to forming the stones. Potatoes are rich in both of these so logically, they wouldn’t fit in as a preventative measure of kidney stones, but they also contain magnesium, which inhibits the accumulation or deposition of calcium (calcification) in the kidney and other tissues, thereby proving beneficial for treatment of renal calculi.
Diarrhea: They are an excellent component of an energy-rich diet for those suffering from diarrhea, since it is very easy to digest and contains mild roughage. However, eating too many potatoes can cause diarrhea due to the excessive ingestion of starch.
Other Benefits and Cautions: Juice from potatoes is a good treatment for burns, bruises, sprains, skin problems, ulcers, effects of narcotics, prostate cancer, uterine cancer, and the formation of cysts or tumors. On the other hand, some care also needs to be taken while eating potatoes. Green potatoes are often poisonous, and so are potato leaves and fruits, as they contain alkaloids like solanine, chaconine and arsenic. An overdose of those chemicals could easily prove fatal. Moreover, the glycemic index (in simple words, the energy or sugar content) of potatoes is very high (above 80), so people that are obese, trying to lose weight, or diabetic should avoid eating potatoes. If eaten, potatoes are healthier when baked, rather than raw or fried.
However, don’t worry; those health risks affect a small part of the population of potato eaters in the world. If you are otherwise fine and healthy, don’t forget that a bit of fat is not bad for you; it’s actually beneficial. Don’t be afraid to enjoy some potato chips and French-fries while watching TV. You won’t become a couch potato if you eat in moderation!
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