Carb-up desserts don't have to have a ton of refined flour and sugar. Take this vegan crustless sweet potato pie recipe. The sweet potato purée becomes a delivery system …
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Yes you can eat potatoes on a low carb diet but only in small amounts. Potatoes are a starchy vegetable, a root vegetable growing below the ground, thereby containing more carbohydrates than non-starchy vegetables. They are ideal for those with energetic lifestyles, maintaining their weight or gaining weight.
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With a nutritional profile very close to the popular Russet Burbank potato, purple potatoes are about 70 calories per ½ cup serving with 15 grams of carbs and no fat. The one significant difference between purple potatoes and Russet potatoes is the antioxidant content; purple potatoes contain 4 times as many antioxidants as Russet potatoes!
Sweet potatoes have a lot of carbohydrates. One 5-inch sweet potato has about 26 grams of carbohydrates. In a low-carb diet, one sweet potato has half of the calories from carbohydrates that you may be allowed. But that's still less than the carb content of a white potato: 35 grams, on average. That's also less than those sweet potato fries.