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HFG shows healthy ways to cook the spud
Check out this article in the January 2012 issue of the NZ Healthy Food Guide Magazine. (Page 37) Where they talk about the healthiest cooking techniques. Good to see they are supporting our message that the amount of fat in a Potato depends on the way you cook it! According to our friends over at HFG. Here are the facts: Per 100g of Potato. Baked Jacket Potato: Fat = 0.3g. ...
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Thanks for visiting our new website - we’ve put together everything we think you might want to know about NZ’s favourite vegetable - from great recipes, tips for cooking, nutrition info, history snippets and quirky facts and figures about the potato. Plus we have started a blog where we will answer any of your questions and keep you up to date with "all things potato". So please keep in touch either by leaving a comment on the blog or by sending us an email. We’d love to hear from you!

The Ideal Roast
There are many different ways to roast potatoes. Check out the Cooking page for tips and ideas on the perfect roast... • View recipe...
 
Sustainable Potatoes
Potatoes need less water to grow than other carbohydrates. It takes around 3,000 litres of water to grow 1kg of rice, but only 75 litres for 1kg of potatoes! • More...
 
Scrum-Time Scalloped Potatoes
On Small Blacks TV Cooking with Kaks, All Blacks Richard Kahui advises - " If you eat plenty of potatoes you'll grow up big and strong". He shares his favourite Scrum-Time potato dish... • More...

 
 
         
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