Thanks mamaLeee, and you other mamas who have eased my mind about potatoes. I eat them every day. They do make me feel very good provided i either bake them or fry them. Quickly boiled potatoes (like for mashed potatoes) do make me feel horrible though, but since reading in NT that dry heat make them more digestible, I've had a good experience with them. I can use moist heat if I let them cook along in a stew, like layering them with beef in Sailor's Stew (a traditional Swedish recipe), for usually a couple of hours. I make sure to use the waxy type for that so they don't disintegrate. I also like potato gratin cooked with stock and a large amount of either olive oil or butter wisked in.
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I have a strong aversion to eating the skins. Since I live in an area with very few food choices, particularly of the plant based kind, I get mostly conventionally grown, so after reading your comment above, I'm grateful for my peeling habit:). I'd still peel organic ones, unless the skins are very thin and delicate. I don't enjoy the very earthy taste.
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Some of you have commented on the high glycemic index/starchiness as being a good reason to avoid potatoes. I recently read 'The Right Price' on the WAP website and noticed the discussion on starchy vegetables. Price had noted in his writings that in the diet of the South Sea Islanders, poi was eaten to a large extent, which is a food very high in starch. These people represented the healthiest society out of those studied by Price. His own recommendation was that starchy foods are fine as long as all dietary needs for important nutrients have been met first.  Â
