Despite its popularity and scientific backing, Paleo has been told on numerous occasions to go back to the paleolithic era on numerous occations.

One argument that has come up and caused some fights even among the Paleo community is the Potato ban. Specifically the White Potato.

Some websites state that the white Potato is less nutritious, starchy and even labelled it a junk food?

Well it really depends on the context of potatoes in comparison to sweet potatoes. Yes sweet potatoes are more nutritious than white potatoes but it doesn’t mean that the white potato deserves a complete ban just because you get less bang for buck. I’m putting it out there and just my opinion: Potatoes are NOT junk food, it’s still a vegetable and a very versatile plant.

Well putting into some context, there is now some evidence (http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/682587?seq=1#p... ) that humans beings

evolved to the internet technology driven species that we are now because of the starchy tubers like potatoes that we ate when we were cave dwellers. Eating the starchy tubers helped with the glucose demands of our then primitive brains and developing foetuses which increased the brain size of our ancestors. There is also evidence that prehistoric humans ate grains more than 100,000 years ago (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/science/22obstar...) where they harvested sorghum grains.

Another thing to note is that the Paleolithic era where stone tools were made before farming was introducing was in fact a very long period and there would not be ONE single Paleolithic diet. It would have depended on the geography, climate and environment of our Paleolithic ancestors and here’s the thing: No one ACTUALLY knows how they ate. If someone can prove it, then that’s great butI’m sceptical if our Paleolithic ancestors were capable of writing recipes on the cave walls to remind their descendants how they ate.