Potatoes are a great food.

My boys can be high calorie consumers. Potatoes are a nutritious starch. Potatoes will always bre a starchy vegetable, to me.

Pasta and bread are much reduced in my family. Grains, especially wheat, is not even close to potatoes. Nor vice versus.

Sweet potatoes and "Irish" potatoes are a great staple. Even DrAtkins allows a serving of potato now and then on maintenance.

Our metabolism is so badly wrecked by SAD that safely tolerating potatoes becomes an issue. If we ate properly our whole life AND exercise properly our whole life, starchy foods are not a problem.

Another common vegetable, corn, is classed as a vegetable. In my house its a grain. Afterall the horses and sheep and chickens eat a boatload of corn!!

Back to potatoes.

Potatoes are a problem for the overweight and obese if weight loss and maintenance is a problem.

My teens eat so many potatoes, I started growing many varieties. A blue potato salad is pretty fun. My boys are both low BMI, cant pinch an inch, can pinch a half inch, because they also physically move. For them, potatoes are a nutrient dense food.

For me, potatoes are a rare thing.