Includes white potato, sweet potato and yams.

Potato relatives: kabuki squash, Jicima and Jerusalem artichokes (Sun chokes).

Alternatives: Cassava, yucca root, rutabaga, turnip, creamed cauliflower.

Found as ingredients: potato flour, potato sugar or potato starch.

*Many soups, stews and prepared foods contain potato in some form. READ LABELS and discover what might include potato but not actually labeled.

*Dextrose is potato sugar. Look for on ingredient lists or even some IV fluid bags are made from this. Also found in many canned foods, bacon, lunch meats, and ham.

Iodized salt.

Dextrose is added to improve taste. Some sea salt has dextrose, but no iodine. Keep in mind that many prepared foods and restaurants use iodized salt in their cooking or ingredients in their cooking.

Alternatives: Pure sea salt. Some Kosher salt (may be contaminated as processed on the same machines as iodized salt).

Potato Starch.

Most baking powders and some tapioca contain potato starch.

Alternative: 1 tsp baking powder = 1 TB cornstarch + ¼ tsp baking soda.

Yeast.

Much yeast is grown on a potato medium. Baking yeast, beer yeast and nutritional yeast often fall under the “potato intolerance.”

Alternatives:

Homemade sourdough.

Red Star Yeast (formulas can change without notice, so be aware of symptoms).

Bragg’s Nutritional Yeast is not potato based and can also be a source of B Vitamins.

Beer and coffee must be tested by brand. Some are ok, some are not. 

Spices –

Onion and garlic powders can contain potato starch as an anti-clumping agent and they are not required to label it.

Cheeses – 

Packaged shredded cheese is sprayed with potato starch as an anti-clumping agent. Both block cheese and butter use iodized salt unless listed as Kosher or sea salt.

Alternatives:

Shred cheese at home

Look for cheese that uses sea salt, no salt, or is from Europe. Most of Europe does NOT iodize their salt and, therefore, is not potato.

Unsalted butter or butter that uses Sea Salt.

B-Vitamins- Cultured on a potato medium

Used to “enrich” flour, some milk, milk alternatives, pasta, breakfast cereals and rice. (Look at labels that say “Enriched” or list B-vitamins (niacin, riboflavin, etc…).

Alternatives:

Flour: whole wheat, grind flour at home, non-enriched flour.

Milk: whole milk, farmers market.

Alternative milk: “Barista” brand (PCC), make nut milks at home.

Plastic containers, water bottles, vitamin bottles and “biodegradable” packaging contain potato to make it easier to decompose. The potato can leach into the food/supplements that are in the containers.

Alternatives:

Glass, stainless steel, pottery. 

Modified food starch, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, vegetable broth (use iodized salt), MSG (also labeled as “natural flavorings”), propylene glycol (the key ingredient in antifreeze, this is found in soda pop and ice creams) are all potato derivatives.

All Penicillin-type antibiotics are Potato based.

Xanthum gum, cellulose, and guar gum may have potato derivatives in them as well.

Coffee- some coffee tests as potato. Each brand is different. Generally it is potato or fruit. The bigger brands could be several different foods due to how it is processed.