Why don't potatoes count towards your five a day?

[branflake81]

They are a vegetable aren't they? Is that they are low in nutrients? I eat potatoes most days of the week.

I think it's because they're mostly starch and hardly any vitamins.

(I think it's unfair too )

Who says they don't?

They don't count.

By the same token, presumably you should be counting rice and bread (made from wheat, after all, a vegetable).

But no, carbs don't count.

No, they don't count at all - see No 2 here from the NHS.

it's because they're too nice. nice things aren't allowed to be healthy.

Somebody should do something!

Anyone else relieved to see that we can get top tips from Patsy Palmer on that site?

How stupid

Baked carrots,
roast broccoli,
mashed couliflower.
They just not the same. I love spuds.

there is vit C in pots. They're not all bad

sweet potatoes count though so you could do them every so often instead of the bog standard ones