"Julie Bove" wrote:
>"Bob Terwilliger" <KeyboardKook@spammer> wrote:
>> Julie wrote:
>>
>>> a few weeks ago I got some sweet potatoes with goat cheese. I did like
>>> them but only ate a tiny taste. I don't need the carbs.
>>
>> You might want to look into the actual carbohydrate content of sweet
>> potatoes. You'll probably be pleasantly surprised at how low they are in
>> carbs, especially in comparison with potatoes.
>
>Yeah but they spike my blood sugar and regular potatoes don't.

That's because sweet potato contains about twice the carbs of white
potato... there's a reason they're called *sweet* potato... sweet
potato has a very high sugar content... for those who need to watch
sugar intake eating *sweet* potato is tanatamount to shoveling sugar
into their mouth. I really didn't need to look it up but for those
who obviously never ate a *sweet* potato:
Sweet:
http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/...roducts/2667/2
White:
http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/...roducts/2770/2