What do people know about potato juice?

[Leeeeeeena]

What do people know about potato juicing/juice?

Benefits? No benefits? Anything and everything.



Lena

[PomegranatePip]

It sounds very bland. What's it supposed to do?

[Leeeeeeena]

It sounds very bland. What's it supposed to do?

Hey! Yeah, it's really gross but I've heard it's apparently excellent for rheumatoid arthritis....no idea why though? That's all I really know about it.

[juliebove]

Hey! Yeah, it's really gross but I've heard it's apparently excellent for rheumatoid arthritis....no idea why though? That's all I really know about it.

That makes no sense. Potatoes are nightshades and they can make arthritis worse.

[GreenPrince]

That makes no sense. Potatoes are nightshades and they can make arthritis worse.

Nightshades... well, I think there is a difference between tomatoes and potatoes, the latter a root(fruit) with a quite different chemistry.
And between potatoes and potato juice.

Potato-water – a decoct of potatoes – has been used in the European folk medicine more than 150 years.
It's a great method to threat an acidified body.

Potato-water is the most well-documented food-based treatment of rheumatoid arthritis since WW2.
Thousands of patients have been healed by fasting on this basic water.

Traditionally unpeeled sliced potatoes have been boiled together with leek to get the decoct.
My guess is that RAW potato-water is at least that effective.

[Leeeeeeena]

That makes no sense. Potatoes are nightshades and they can make arthritis worse.

Why do you say this?

[iamacranberry]

I always wondered myself whether raw potatoes were even safe to eat. I used raw potato in a recipe and felt quite sick the rest of the day...

[juliebove]

Why do you say this?


http://arthritis.about.com/b/a/257412.htm


http://alternatives4arthritis.com/avoid.html

http://www.digitalnaturopath.com/treat/T427017.html

[Yeshia]

yukky lol

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[Rubyred]

I have a book that said you should not eat brown russet type potatoes raw. I can't remember what was in them that made them so bad for you raw. But red potatoes were very good for you raw. Also, you should always remove any green spots or buds.

I have juiced red potatoes and they were too strong for me without being water being added. Although, I haven't tried it since I've been raw.

[EZ rider]

Potato juice sure turns brown fast

[Leeeeeeena]

I have a book that said you should not eat brown russet type potatoes raw. I can't remember what was in them that made them so bad for you raw. But red potatoes were very good for you raw. Also, you should always remove any green spots or buds.

I have juiced red potatoes and they were too strong for me without being water being added. Although, I haven't tried it since I've been raw.



Hi and thank you for your input.

I asked Alissa about it all, and she replied saying that it is a fantastic idea to juice potatoes for rheumatoid arthritis. I think GreenPrince is dead right about the different chemistry of a raw juiced potato as compared to eating a raw potato.

I'm just really curious as to how potatoes are a relief of RA?

[Leeeeeeena]

Oh! and one more thing, I heard that when potatoes do get that green stuff on them it's actually deadly? Is this true??

[GreenPrince]

Oh! and one more thing, I heard that when potatoes do get that green stuff on them it's actually deadly? Is this true??

When potatoes are exposed to light they turn green by chlorophyll, and the content of solanine (and chaconine) normally increase about five times.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanine)

There is a good result reported from fasting on decoct of potatoe, but still very little experience of raw potatoe juice. When fasting on raw rootfruit juice I always recommend to dilute the juice with lukewarm water.

I often eat 1-2 raw potatoes, and sometimes make a raw juice of some potatoes, carrots, turnip-rooted celery and beetroot.

Generally, if you don't like the taste of raw potatoes, don't eat them or drink the juice.

[Leeeeeeena]

When potatoes are exposed to light they turn green by chlorophyll, and the content of solanine (and chaconine) normally increase about five times.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanine)

There is a good result reported from fasting on decoct of potatoe, but still very little experience of raw potatoe juice. When fasting on raw rootfruit juice I always recommend to dilute the juice with lukewarm water.

I often eat 1-2 raw potatoes, and sometimes make a raw juice of some potatoes, carrots, turnip-rooted celery and beered beet.

Generally, if you don't like the taste of raw potatoes, don't eat them or drink the juice.


Hey yeah, thanks for that. I can't believe you eat raw potatoes? Don't you get a sore tummy?

Also, do you know if potato juice is okay to be mixed with apple to 'hide' some of its taste?

[Bobbie]

I mix potato juice with carrot juice.
It's full of potassium.
It also contains fluoride.
It is used to treat something but I can't remember what.........

[iamacranberry]

My guess is all of our stomachs tolerate different things...mine won't take raw potatoes! But then again, I've developed quite the sensitive stomach since raw. I no longer can consume any of the following without noticeable adverse effects: refined sugar, more than a handful or so of nuts in a sitting, cooked starches, cooked food as far as I know it besides the occasional bit of pasteurized lemon juice or something, caffeine (had to give up green tea, which made me sad), alcohol (1 drink and that's it--I would indeed be a cheap drunk if I drank!). I'm sure the list goes on. BUT, I can tolerate eating cloves of garlic and chewing on gingerroot.

[Bobbie]

"POTATO They are in the same family as tomatoes and peppers. An excellent source of vitamin C and high in carbohydrates, potassium, calcium and iron. The most nutritious part of the potato is the skin. During World War I, a group of German soldiers, near starvation, were forced to live on raw potatoes. The soldiers with gastric disorders were relieved and cured. After the war, Dr. J. F. Magerl began treating gastric patients with raw potato juice. After 10 days of the treatment, most of the patients showed no symptoms.

Potato juice is a wonderful addition to any vegetable juice. When potatoes are juiced, a white silky paste will form on the bottom of the glass. This is potato starch and is mucus-forming with little nutritional value. Of all the vegetables, potatoes are slightly mucus-forming, but are still a valuable food, especially when juiced."

[GreenPrince]

Leeeeeeena (http://www.rawfoodtalk.com/member.php?u=12195)
"I can't believe you eat raw potatoes? Don't you get a sore tummy?"

Yummy, no sore tummy. :)

"Also, do you know if potato juice is okay to be mixed with apple to 'hide' some of its taste?"

I think young and healthy people can mix most food more or less randomly and they feel great, but some people have some difficulties with digesting greenstuffs or rootfruits together with fruits. So there is an old general recommendation, at least in the health food movement, not to do it.

However, I often see recipes nowadays with apple juice and vegetables. Why not try potato juice with apple or apple juice and find out how you react?

I would prefer to blend potato juice with water or other root-fruit juices, like carrot juice as Bobbie writes.

This is all about the acid-base balance, a simple knowledge which has created a great confusedness, because there are two different acid-bas balances - one prior to the burning of the "food fuel" in the body (the Krebs or citric acid cycle in the power plant of the mitochondrias
in the cells) and the other afterwards.

Btw, unriped fruit have fruit acids to protect the fruit from six-, four-, and two-legged vermins. When the seeds are fully developed, the fruit produces several types of alcohols and they react chemically with the different fruit acids. The result is a "ester". The fruit is riped.
alcohol + acid = ester

The wonderful flavour or aromas of riped fruit are mainly esters and there are houndreds of them. Riped fruit are tasty and less acid.

Sorry, a long post.:o

[luv2learn]

My friend told me about how raw potato juice has helped her sister during chemo - turned dark skin (from chemo) to normal color and that raw potato juice helps control spread of cancer. I had to search out the validity of such claim. I found out that raw potato juice has many benefits including help in rhematism, intestine problem, help in case of hypertension, etc. I'm listing a few links for reference so you can read yourself. The last link is by a MD. I know a couple friend who say they make raw potato juice for the family regularly.

http://flavoursofindia.tripod.com/potato.html


http://www.nutrimaxorganic.com/health_topics/raw_potato_juice.html

http://guide2herbalremedies.com/therapeutic-properties-potato-juice/

http://www.drlam.com/opinion/potatojuice.asp

I have tried raw potato juice a couple of times. I made it with a green apple and carrot. It tastes fine.

[michigan roman]

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and the old timer rawfoody norman walker used the juice but i cant rember for what at this moment , but he spoke well of it from hos experience

[saivenkat]

I always wondered myself whether raw potatoes were even safe to eat. I used raw potato in a recipe and felt quite sick the rest of the day......
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[jhoneferis]

Hi..
Sorry Dear i have not heard on it.. but regarding the all comment i got some idea on it.. It seems good for me... Thanks for sharing the information..