Why Science Says This Food Beats Steak (The Satiety Index)

In 1995, researchers ranked 38 foods by how full they made people feel. Number one was not a protein shake, not a grain, not a supplement. It was a boiled potato — with a satiety score of 323, more than three times the baseline. One point six billion people depend on it. Most of us call it a side dish. This is the story of the most underestimated food in history: where it came from, what it actually does inside your body, and why what we do to it matters more than the potato itself. ─────────────────────────── SOURCES ─────────────────────────── → Holt et al. (1995) — Susanna Holt's Satiety Index, European Journal of Clinical Nutrition → International Potato Center (CIP), Lima — cip.org → Irish Famine records — National Library of Ireland ─────────────────────────── Simple Foods — a Science of Simplicity series Watch the full series here ➔    • Simple Foods   ─────────────────────────── #ThePotato #FoodScience #ScienceOfSimplicity