potato cooking question

[kardea]

Usually when I cook up potatoes and cabbage and turnip I throw them all in the same pot. My question is: would some of the carbs in the potatoes transfer themselves via the cooking water to the turnip and cabbage that I plan to eat?

[cmcole]

Probably minor amounts - obviously it depends on if you cook them to a mush, or put the turnip and cabbage in first, and then add the potatoes after a while, and just cook until done, but not overly mushy.

[not2late]

Or cook the potatoes separately so you won't cross contaminate the turnips and cabbage.

[NulloModo]

Starch does leach out into the water, this is one of the reasons pasta water is often used to thicken sauces - the starch from the pasta that leached into the water provides the effect.