Source:
USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference. "Potatoes, baked, flesh and skin, with salt." Accessed October 22, 2010. http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search//.
Basic Nutrition: How Many Servings For a Day's Worth of Vitamin C?
By Shereen Jegtvig, About.com Guide
Updated March 03, 2013
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One medium-sized baked (or roasted) potato with the skin on has 17 mg vitamin C, so you'd need to eat about five baked potatoes (87 mg vitamin C) to get a day's worth of vitamin C. Those five potatoes (served plain) would also have 649 calories and contain 10 mg niacin.
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