potatoes and most vegetables aren't really "optimal" from a nutrition standpoint. (atleast in my view) Think about it this way, if a food contains things that actively work against youlike oxalates, phytic acid, goitrogens, lectins and everything nutritionally useful in it is already covered by animal foods, what's the actual argument for eating it?
Potatoes are mostly starch with a decent potassium hit, but you're getting potassium (and more) from meat. The fiber people talk up? Your gut doesn't need it the way we've been told that's increasingly being questioned.
(however potatoes are decent carb source)
not all vegetables are equal. Bell peppers, cucumbers, carrots are a lower antinutrient load, mostly water, less of the stuff that causes problems.
The 26 nutrients missing from plants but present in meat. retinol, heme iron, taurine, carnosine, creatine, B12, K2, complete amino acid profiles , those aren't minor gaps they are truly foundational.
Fruit is the go to carb source imo. Low antinutrient load, easy to digest, and it actually pairs well with how the body runs on an animal based diet. Ripe fruit ESPECIALLY mango, berries, melon, oranges. Honey works the same way.
White rice is a reasonable option if you need performance carbs around training it's essentially neutral, stripped of the bran and phytic acid, so it's not working against you.
Root vegetables like well cooked sweet potato or squash are on the acceptable end too just make sure cooking breaks down most of the antinutrients.
What doesn't fit the animal based framework well is whole grains, legumes, raw leafy greens in large amounts, anything high in oxalates or lectins. Not because carbs are bad, but because those specific sources bring baggage that your animal foods don't.
If your meat and organ intake is solid, you honestly don't need a ton of carbs. but when you want them, keep it clean and keep it lowinterference.
