It is generally believed that fried food is not good for health and it is not actually. It has been proved a number of times that fried foods are loaded with fat and affect the health adversely, which is actually true as per the doctors.

But the recent research, conducted on the potato chips and French fries suggested that they are not bad for health and are in fact a good source of nutrition. They further cleared the point by asserting that potatoes contain large amount of starch and they resist the oil when they are fried.

As a result, only 5% of fat is deposited on them while the other fried products like eggplant and zucchini raked in six times of that i. e. 30% oil deposits. Pizza is said to be equally beneficial as it also stores only 5% fat.

Professor Vincenzo Fogliano and Italian chef Giuseppe Daddio were involved in the new research. Fogliano said that starch seals the food while it is being fried and reduces the oil absorption by it. But the fact does not apply to frozen products. The resistance decreases in those cases and they absorb quite a bigger fat amounts.

"If it's fried in the correct way, a potato chip... can be an excellent nutritional product", said Fogliano.