Review of the "Five a day" message

It's a pity the professor's not enthusiastic about smoothies, though. I love them and would never get my five a day without them...

Good advice. Simply to remember.

Just need to get more people to 'buy into' its benefits when 'Five-a-day' struggles against the slick marketing of less healthy foods.

Once you take the skin off there is very little fibre left - the potato cells are very large, mainly starch, not much of anything else.
If you boil veg oil at a high temperature it changes chemically and becomes progressively less "healthy" than cold uncooked oil.
Last time I had really nice chips was in a bar in Spain - someone had peeled a real potato for me. Tasted like my nana used to make. Chips in Uk are made from tasteless varieties of potato selected for convenience to caterers rather than taste. Mostly they are made in a factory and chilled. You see them being delivered to restaurants in big plastic bags.

Do chip shops actually use saturated fats nowadays? I thought they all used vegetable oils, which is why chip shop chips don't taste as good as they did when I was a kid.

Skins on, potato wedges, oven-roasted in goose fat. Yum. Taste factor does it for me every time.

Can't remember when I last ate those either

How would boiling destroy the fibre? VitC, yes, but fibre?

Yes quite, more of a judgement call to discourage the consumption of chips or crisps while telling oneself they are a healthy food. I think another way of putting it is that by the time you have peeled em, chopped them up and boiled them in saturated oil at a high temperature, any resemblance to a vegetable (e.g. fibre, Vitamin C) has been obliterated. So maybe not so unscientific really.
Oh and then there are the Walsall specials - dunk them in bright orange batter before you fry them! [faintly queasy emoticon]

Always wondered why potatoes were excluded! I thought it was probably something, ahem, unscientific