Potato Chips vs French Fries: Which is Worse?

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 4 March 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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If you’re going to have a cheat meal on the keto diet, which one is better to have—potato chips or french fries?

Heat breaks down starch, and it releases the sugar. A raw potato has zero effect on your blood sugar. But, when you start heating it, that’s when things start to go downhill.

On the glycemic index, below 55 is low, and above 70 is high.

• Fried potatoes or french fries are at 75 on the glycemic index.

• Potato chips are at 54 on the glycemic index.

Potato chips are better than french fries when you look at the glycemic index, but what about other factors.

Potato chips:

• Oil Trans fat/GMO

• Sugar

• Chemicals

French fries are often consumed with ketchup or meat, which can cause the glycemic index to be higher than 75, which can cause additional problems.

French fries are usually consumed with a meal. Potato chips are usually consumed as a snack, which adds a spike in insulin.

Having a potato chip at the end of a meal instead of a snack would be a better choice, especially if it was cooked in olive oil or avocado oil.

Potato chips versus french fries, which one is better: Overall, potato chips are better to have than french fries.

However, when starches like potato chips and french fries are cooked above 250 degrees Fahrenheit, it creates a chemical called acrylamide. Acrylamide may cause cancer.

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Dr. Berg, 51 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional & natural methods. His private practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government & the Justice Department, ambassadors, medical doctors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, engineers, professors, and other clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.

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0:00.0	So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting,
0:04.4	whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product.
0:10.5	Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7.
0:29.0	Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. One of the things I like doing is giving people knowledge so they can differentiate better.
0:49.2	I'm talking about tell the difference between different types of foods and to teach you things that are really important versus not very important, various links between cause and effect.
1:01.6	But today we're going to differentiate between potato chip and a french fry,
1:06.0	which one is better, which one's worse.
1:08.4	And you know they're going to have a cheat meal, so you can help them decide which food that will create the least damage.
1:15.0	Now if we just take a look at the glycemic index for a moment,
1:19.0	in relationship to a potato, and the different types of potato products, we know that heat breaks down a starch.
1:29.2	If you consume a raw potato on the glycemic index,'s pretty much a zero so it's going to have
1:35.5	zero effect on your blood sugars it's not going to even be digested so you can
1:40.6	consume all the raw potatoes you want it It's not going to be a problem.
1:43.6	But as soon as you start heating that potato, that's when things start to go downhill.
1:48.8	Because the heat breaks down the starch and it releases the sugar. Now if we look at the glycemic index
1:54.6	below 55 is low above 70 is high. So if we start up here, instant potatoes is like 97.
2:05.0	It's pretty high.
2:06.0	100 is glucose, okay?
2:09.0	Now table sugar, because table sugar is like half glucose and half fructose, which fructose is about, I think it's
2:17.6	16 and glucose is 100, so table sugar is right around I think 72 but glucose is 100
2:27.0	Instant potatoes is pretty close to glucose. It's pretty high. Then we get baked
2:32.2	potatoes. Okay that could range between 84 and 110 depending on how long you bake it.
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