Potato Vs Potato Chips

[Guest laferriere]

Hi!

I'm new still and wondering if anyone else can eat gluten-free potato chips with no problem yet not eat a simple baked potato (with NOTHING but my usual salt) and have it cause intestinal upset? This seems so weird to me as I KNOW I can tolerate Cape Cod lowfat p chips and I also know if I bake my own potato I will have trouble that night. Just wondering...

lisa

[ravenwoodglass]

Hi!

I'm new still and wondering if anyone else can eat gluten-free potato chips with no problem yet not eat a simple baked potato (with NOTHING but my usual salt) and have it cause intestinal upset? This seems so weird to me as I KNOW I can tolerate Cape Cod lowfat p chips and I also know if I bake my own potato I will have trouble that night. Just wondering...

lisa

Are you baking the potato in the skin on the rack in your oven where gluten foods have been cooked?

[Ursa Major]

It is likely the skin that is the culprit here. I am able to eat PEELED white potatoes occasionally, the skin contains high levels of salicylates (and who knows what else that could be causing a reaction in susceptible individuals).

Also, especially baked potatoes, are so starchy, that the body converts them instantly to sugar (faster than white flour products). It is likely that your body can't process the chips as quickly, and so they may cause fewer problems. Just my opinion, of course.

[CarlaB]

I don't know the reasoning, and I don't have a problem with baked potatoes, but if my stomach is upset, sometimes the only thing I can eat is Ruffles.

[Guest laferriere]

Thank you all!!! Ursula, that's very interesting about the salicytes. (I'm sure I just spelled that wrong.) I don't eat the skin because I've assumed it's too rough but maybe just being cooked in it would do it. Boy, the body is a complicated thing! I DO put them on the rack sometimes but the only gluten things that I cook for my family are in pans.

lisa

Carla,

That's also so funny about the Ruffles. Sometimes you just have to trust your body to know what it likes and doesn't, I guess. Take care.

lisa

[kbtoyssni]

I don't know the reasoning, and I don't have a problem with baked potatoes, but if my stomach is upset, sometimes the only thing I can eat is Ruffles.

Ruffles? That makes me laugh. Seems like potato chips would be the worst thing for an upset stomach, but I guess whatever works for you!

[CarlaB]

Ruffles? That makes me laugh. Seems like potato chips would be the worst thing for an upset stomach, but I guess whatever works for you!

Seems strange to me, too, and it's my stomach! I ate so many of them when I was really sick that my husband said I should be the spokesman for them. The bag even matches my car, and I always had a bag of them in my car. I don't think it would have been a profitable campaign though with me there saying I'm eating them because they're fattening and I need to keep my weight up. If I eat a meal and it's not sitting right with me, sometimes a few chips helps.

[jerseyangel]

I have to laugh, because I eat Ruffles all the time, and if I have an upset stomach, they're one of the foods I can eat that won't make it worse. I eat the Natural ones. But I have no problems with potatoes either.