I really don't like the inside white part of the potato...But I love the skins baked... I am wondering what the carb count of just the skins are.... I like them with sour cream and, or salsa and or melted cheese. yum

According to Fitday, 1 potato skin (raw) = Total Carbohydrate 4.73g and Dietary Fiber 0.95g. They don't specify how big of a potato this is though.

Hmmm? I'll have to look into this DH is missing potatoes something terrible. This could do the trick.
Alli

In The Low-Carb Cookbook, Fran McCullough has a recipe for potato skins (the only potato recipe, of course). She said if you take a large (by which I assume she does NOT mean one of those monster baking potatoes, just a big potato out of a bag of russets), flat potato, bake it, cut it in half, and scrape out all but about 1/4 inch of flesh, then fill it with cheese and such, you will have about 10 to 15 grams of carbs.

Hmmmm...still seems like a lot of carbs to me... I wonder what the actual carb count of the potato is... and does it include the skin in the whole count.? Fiber in the whole thing too??? hmmmmm

any body know the answer to the whole potato with the skin carb count?

Did a bit of hunting, the only thing I could find was a site that listed baked potato without skin as
145 cals
34 carbs
3 protien
and baked potato with skin as
220 cals
34 carbs
5 protein,
of you do the math based on this it would be 17 carbs, and I surely hope that's not right because I have been eating the skins periodically. The only part of the equation missing would be fibre, and I would think there should be a fair amount in the skins, but so far I haven't been able to find anything that tells me how much. Not sure if this helps you or me!!! Will have to keep hunting.

Thanks for hunting... When I eat the skins it totally cancells out the craving for the innards of the potato. I also would think there would be quite a bit of fiber in the skins.

According to Fitday PC Software:

1 small Potato Skin -- 8g - 1g = 7g Net
1 med. Potato Skin -- 10g - 1g = 9g Net
1 long Potato Skin -- 16g - 2g = 14g Net
1 large Potato Skin -- 15g - 2g = 13g Net

1 small Potato --

16g - 1g = 15g Net (w.o Peel)
20g - 2g = 18g Net (w. Peel)

1 med. Potato --

21g - 1g = 20g Net (w.o Peel)
26g - 3g = 23g Net (w. Peel)

1 long Potato --

34g - 2g = 32g Net (w.o Peel)
43g - 4g = 39g Net (w. Peel)

1 large Potato --

31g - 2g = 29g Net (w.o Peel)
39g - 4g = 35g Net (w. Peel)

I think there's some overlap. I.E. the "skin" figures probably include the peel and some of the innards that may adhere to it...

small = 1-3/4" (D) - 2-1/4" (D)
med. = 2-1/4" (D) - 3" (D)
long = 2-1/3" (D) x 4-3/4" (L)
large = 3" (D) - 4-1/4" (D)

Baked Potato w.o Peel (per ounce) -- 6g - 0g = 6g Net
Baked Potato w. Peel (per ounce) -- 6g - 1g = 5g Net
Baked Potato Skin (per ounce) -- 10g - 1g = 9g Net

Me too osuzana, definitely fills that potato craving, I always did like the skin part the best even before LCing.
THanks cc48510, I'll take your figures, 9 g I can work with once in a while. I must weight my potato skin next time and see how much it weighs.