{"id":255,"date":"2024-12-10T02:05:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T02:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/emayes\/?p=255"},"modified":"2024-12-10T02:05:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T02:05:18","slug":"favorite-food-writeup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/emayes\/2024\/12\/10\/favorite-food-writeup\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Food Writeup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Fats<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three main contributors of fats in mashed potatoes are milk, cream cheese, and butter. Milk contains myristic, stearic, and palmitic acids. Butter and cream cheese contain mostly oleic, myristic, and palmitic acids.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Myristic acid \u2013 14 carbons, saturated, nonessential<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stearic acid \u2013 18 carbons, saturated, nonessential<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Palmitic acid \u2013 16 carbons, saturated, nonessential<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Oleic acid \u2013 18 carbons, mono-unsaturated, omega-9, nonessential<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The most common fatty acid between all of these foods is palmitic acid, pictured below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/emayes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35970\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-08-at-9.52.54-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"227\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/emayes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35970\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-08-at-9.52.54-PM-1024x227.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/emayes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35970\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-08-at-9.52.54-PM-1024x227.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/emayes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35970\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-08-at-9.52.54-PM-300x66.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/emayes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35970\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-08-at-9.52.54-PM-768x170.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/emayes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35970\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-08-at-9.52.54-PM-1536x340.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/emayes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35970\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-08-at-9.52.54-PM-912x202.png 912w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/emayes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35970\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-08-at-9.52.54-PM.png 1708w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Carbohydrates<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main source of carbohydrates in mashed potatoes is the starch in the potatoes. There is also carbohydrates in milk in the form of lactose. These are both natural sugars.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Protein<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main source of protein in mashed potatoes is milk. There are 8 grams of protein per cup in whole milk. Milk is a good source of the amino acid leucine.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vitamins and Minerals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vitamin D (from milk) \u2013 Good source, 10%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Calcium (from milk) \u2013 Excellent source, 20%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vitamin A (from milk) \u2013 Good source, 10%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Potassium (from potatoes) \u2013 Excellent source, 20%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iron (from potatoes) \u2013 Good source, 10%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fats The three main contributors of fats in mashed potatoes are milk, cream cheese, and butter. Milk contains myristic, stearic, and palmitic acids. Butter and cream cheese contain mostly oleic, myristic, and palmitic acids.&nbsp; The most common fatty acid between all of these foods is palmitic acid, pictured below: Carbohydrates The main source of carbohydrates &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/emayes\/2024\/12\/10\/favorite-food-writeup\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Favorite Food Writeup<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/emayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/emayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/emayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/emayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/emayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/emayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/emayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/emayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/emayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/emayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}