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Are Green Potatoes Bad?
As vegetarians, we eat a bunch of potatoes. I read in a health newsletter that
you should not eat green potatoes. So what is the skinny on green potatoes
being poisonous? Should we just toss them?
Whoa! It is just too expensive to toss any potato that has some green on it!
Sometimes, several if not half of a bag of potatoes have green under the skin.
Ever found that to be true for you?
Well, here's the best info I could find on poisonous green potatoes: cut away
the green OR fry the potato and you have neutralized the toxin!
The toxic chemical, solanine, is a natural fungus and insect repellant
developed by the potato and all plants in its family, which happens to include
tomatoes! The taxonomic plant category nightshade, Latin name Solanaceae,
contains over 3,000 species and has a bunch of good foods in it -- potatoes,
bell peppers, eggplant, chili peppers as well as plants that provide helpful
medicines, like belladonna.
Relevant to us today is the way to be safe when handling potatoes to avoid the
ingestion of heart-stopping quantities of solanine. Just get rid of it. Simple
enough to do, no?
You can peel it off before you cook the potato or, if it is on a potato chip,
just go ahead and eat it. Once it is fried, the poison is neutralized. Besides, it would require eating 4.5 pounds of potatoes with green skins to affect a healthy human.
The green color is chlorophyll. It forms when the tubers are exposed to strong
light or sunlight. Store your potatoes in a dark cool place. IF you get
sprouts, take them off and discard them and the eyes from which they grew.
Do these things and you can rest assured that you are not poisoning either
yourself, your family or guests!
you should not eat green potatoes. So what is the skinny on green potatoes
being poisonous? Should we just toss them?
Whoa! It is just too expensive to toss any potato that has some green on it!
Sometimes, several if not half of a bag of potatoes have green under the skin.
Ever found that to be true for you?
Well, here's the best info I could find on poisonous green potatoes: cut away
the green OR fry the potato and you have neutralized the toxin!
The toxic chemical, solanine, is a natural fungus and insect repellant
developed by the potato and all plants in its family, which happens to include
tomatoes! The taxonomic plant category nightshade, Latin name Solanaceae,
contains over 3,000 species and has a bunch of good foods in it -- potatoes,
bell peppers, eggplant, chili peppers as well as plants that provide helpful
medicines, like belladonna.
Relevant to us today is the way to be safe when handling potatoes to avoid the
ingestion of heart-stopping quantities of solanine. Just get rid of it. Simple
enough to do, no?
You can peel it off before you cook the potato or, if it is on a potato chip,
just go ahead and eat it. Once it is fried, the poison is neutralized. Besides, it would require eating 4.5 pounds of potatoes with green skins to affect a healthy human.
The green color is chlorophyll. It forms when the tubers are exposed to strong
light or sunlight. Store your potatoes in a dark cool place. IF you get
sprouts, take them off and discard them and the eyes from which they grew.
Do these things and you can rest assured that you are not poisoning either
yourself, your family or guests!
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