You're not very creative and who the fuck eats fried carrots?
Does it matter if anyone eats fried carrots or not? EDIT: Apparently, about 25% of the population of the planet eat fried carrots.
Frying a carrot does not magically turn it into a 747...or into a milk, or bread, or meat...it, in fact, stays a vegetable. A fried one, potentially no longer worthy of eating (not sure why frying does to the vitamins present in a carrot), but still a vegetable.
Didn't read thread so not sure why anyone would want to classify a fried vegetable as a pure vegetable.
No one would classify a cooked vegetable as a raw vegetable. The basic fact that you called it a fried VEGETALBE means you agree that frying it does not magically make it no longer a vegetable.
Potato chips FTW I guess.
Lets compare the potato to potato chips. Before we start, the only difference I know about without any research is the fat and salt content...we are going to slog through this together.
First, lets calculate how many potato chips you get from a potato, so we can discuss them evenly:
It requires five to six raw potatoes or 600g to make a 150g bag of chips
http://askville.amazon.com/chips-make-potato/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=13567752
Then we use the nutritional data from here:
http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2554/2 Potato
http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/snacks/5627/2 Potato Chips
I used the amounts which very roughly correspond, being 100g of potato and 28g of potato chips. Comparing the two:
Potato - Chip
Fat: 0% - 16%
Cholest: 0% - 0%
Sodium: 0% - 6%
Fiber: 6% - 5%
A: 0% - 0%
C: 21% - 21%
Calcium: 1% - 1%
Iron: 2% - 2%
Looking over the charts, we see that the potato and the chip provide the same amounts of nutrients. Not surprising, sine the potato chip IS both a potato and vegetable (for purposes of nutritional info at least). The thing frying does is that it takes it from a barely nutritious vegetable into one that is harmful to you.
So can we all agree that frying a potato does not suddenly make it stop being a vegetable? Can we all agree that even potato chips have all the nutrition of a potato but with added fat and salt?
Can we finally put that idiocy to rest?