Is a potato considered a vegetable?

Answer 1

Strictly, it's a tuber, not a vegetable. If you're asking about whether you can include it among your portions of vegetable per day, the answer is only yes if you eat the skins and the very shallow layer of potato underneath. If you peel a potato you remove 90% of its goodness and leave yourself with a great ball of starch. Peel potatoes don't count towards your veg count.

Answer 2

Its one of the few vegetable that is absolutely a vegetable. Usually if something has seeds it is a fruit but is sometimes called a vegatable (tomato for example). Potato has no seeds.

Answer 3

heck yes potatoes are the best vegetable there is . u an make mash potatoes sclleped potatoes french fries all the best food

Answer 4

Yes, the potato is a tuber vegetable.

Answer 5

an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous

Answer 6

It is a vegetable but since you have to cook it to eat it it's considered a starch.

Answer 7

Yes it's a vegetable but the nutritional value is that of a starch . . . like bread, rice or cereal.

Answer 8

Yes.

However, if you are on a restricted diet, potatoes usually count as a starch or bread serving.

Answer 9

No, it is not a fruit, it is a root derived food or tuber. Only foods that are considered fruits are if they are seed bearing. Tomatoes are actually consisered fruits not vegetable.

Answer 10

Yes, a potato is a veggie.