When potatoes are cooked, are the vitamins/minerals it contains prior to cooking (heating) destroyed?
Some a small amount of vitamins are destroyed with heating and more vitamins and minerals are leeched out of a potato when boiled. But for most people, this will have little impact. I don’t know how big your dinner plate is or how high you are piling the potatoes – but one 300 gram potato (one large potato) has 3.3 mg of iron in it. (Iron measured after it was baked) That same potato if boiled would have about 1 mg of iron. The recommended daily intake of iron is 18 mg.
