“Blood Pressure Higher Than Last Time”: Bodybuilding Community Reacts to Pringles Mashed Potatoes

Everyone has their own cooking style, but have you ever heard of someone making mashed potatoes without using potatoes? One individual tried exactly that, and the IFBB Pro coach Greg Doucette recently shared the reel on his Instagram account. However, neither the IFBB coach nor the fitness industry approved of this recipe.

The reel uploaded by Doucette featured a guy cooking mashed potatoes; instead of potatoes, he used three cans of Pringles. In the video once could see how the person cooking added chips to the boiling water and mashed them up till they melted down and became creamy.

Then he strained the mixture and removed all the excess liquid from it, further moving it to a. This is where things got intense. He added more than a big chunk of butter, followed by milk and salt. He topped off the mixture by adding some greens to it.

This recipe surprised Doucette. He expressed his skepticism over the recipe in the caption and wrote, “Who makes mashed potatoes from chips?” The 43-year-old coach advised the netizen to learn some recipes instead of making mashed potatoes from chips.

Not only the coach, but many fitness enthusiasts seemed to not be in in favor of the netizen’s recipe. They worried that the high amount of calories and sodium in the dish might affect your body badly and shared their opinions in the comment section of Doucette’s post.

The fitness community deems the dish unhealthy

A fitness freak worried about their blood pressure after eating the dish and wrote, “Raising their blood pressure higher than last time.” Another fitness enthusiast shed light on the amount of calories these mashed potatoes contain, writing, “All I see is 3 days worth of calories gone on something meh lol.” A bodybuilding fan mocked the recipe’s lack of real potatoes and wrote, “I guess it is the 0% potato mashed potatoes.“

An Instagram user highlighted that instead of doing this, one could just buy some mashed potatoes from the store. “If you are gonna do this, instant mash potato exist for $2,” the wrote.  Another user seemed worried about the amount of sodium in the dish and made his suspicions known, commenting, “That’s probably 3000 mg of sodium per tea spoon.” A fitness freak conveyed an alarming message in simple words, writing, “This is how you die young.”

It seems like the fitness community’s criticism of the dish might not end soon. Would you still dare to try out the recipe? Let us know in the comments.