Fried potatoes


Fried potatoes are a dish – or component of other dishes, such as Bauernfrühstück – essentially consisting of potatoes which have been fried, or deep-fried, in hot cooking oil, often with the addition of salt and/or other seasonings. They are often served as a side dish.

Health considerations

A threat from consuming fried potatoes is consuming a potential carcinogen, acrylamide which is produced when starchy foods are fried at a high temperature.
High consumption of fried potatoes is sometimes implicated to increase the risk of type 2 diabetes, obesity, cardiometabolic diseases and mortality. This is likely due to several cooccurring factors, such as; high glycemic index, increased fat-caloric density combined with excessive sodium, cooking in trans fats, cooking with degraded oils, and the obligatory high-heat increasing exposure to acrolein, acrylamide & glycidamide. The increased relative risk is more consistently observed when focusing on shallow fry and deep fry but not routinely observed when studying unfried potato consumption.

List of fried potato dishes