Are potatoes fattening?

No, it is the toppings on the potatoes. They are actually healthy for you and full of vitamins!

I'm going to tell you a truth that no diet guru, diet book, or corporate entity selling food will ever have the audacity to tell you for fear of destroying the mystery that protects their own business model.

Foods are not fattening. Excess calories are fattening.

Yes, very. All that starch, and those carbs.

You need the carbohydrates...don't worry about potatoes, unless you are frying them in lots of oil, and topping them with cream etc.
You can prepare potatoes in the microwave with just a drizzle of oil and some lovely spices, cover with plastic. Cook until soft....mmmm

Potatoes are fattening if you are overweight or have insulin resistance. Most people who are overweight have some degree of insulin resistance. Potatoes will quickly be turned into a simple carbohydrate in the body and then will be stored as fat because of the insulin response. To slow that response, one can actually add fat to the potato.

Potatoes are very good for you. If you like baked potatoes, believe it or not, the skin is the healthiest part of the potatoe. It is when you add butter, cheese, sourcream, etc that a potatoe becomes fattening.

No, its what you put on the potatoes that makes it fattening.

Red Rose potatoes have the least amount of starch, therefore they are lower in carbohydrates so they will impact your metabolism less than the Russet potato. If you eat a potato with a meal including protein, and eat the protein first, you can then eat the potato and it will have less impact on your digestive system, since you've "padded" it with protein, which is very low in carbohydrates. But if you eat French Fries for a snack..or bags of potato chips, then yes, it will be very fattening !:)

Yes, they most certainly are. Hopefully, they might start producing diet potatoes.

no it is all the extras you put on them like butter, sour cream etc...

Any food with calories is fattening if you eat too much of it. A medium-sized potato has about 100 calories, but if you put crumbled bacon and lots of butter or sour cream on it, suddenly it's a calorie-bomb. I admit I do like butter on it, but never developed a taste for sour cream. Also like a little garlic powder, salt & pepper.

What about plain potatoes without anything? I heard they were good for you despite.

Potatoes are some of the most fattening foods you can eat. When someone is dieting, one of the first things nutritionists tell them not to eat is potatoes. It's basically nothing but starch.

I may get in trouble here - potatoes are a simple starch much like white bread they are easily converted to sugars. Also very few eat them without a little something {?} butter, bacon bits, sour cream, ect. That being said I would add - all things in moderation. Many of us have a hard time finding the proper amounts of the proper food and behaving as we know we should.

There the best fing you can eat, duh, thought this was soooooooooooooooooooo obvious. Eat as many as you like all day every day until you puke, good luk xx

They are not fattening. And do not listen to quacks trying to sell book.

The important thing is to have a balanced diet. Remember the pyramid from school biology?

Potatoes contain carbohydrates.

Carbohydrate is important in a healthy balanced diet. http://www.vhi.ie/hfiles/hf-016.jsp

Too much of any Carbohydrates can be fattening but then too much of any food without exercise can be fattening.