Green potatoes

Rab Bruce <[email hidden]> had a gift of laughter and
a sense that the world was mad, or at least the rec.food.cooking part

and said:

Recently noticed that potatoes bought from supermarkets
(Sainsbury's and Co-op) develop a green tinge at/just under
the skin within a couple of days. Varies from pale green to
almost bottle-green! I believe this may be poisonous - am I
right, and if so, is it something that always happens and
I've just not noticed it, or is it a recent thing?

Rab

The green color is chlorophyll caused by exposure to natural
or flourescent light and is harmless. However, an alkaloid
called solanine may also be present. This is potentially a
problem for people sensitive to it. The concentration is
limited to the skin and eyes or sprouts if present. Peeling
will eliminate most if not all of the solanine. Cooking in
water or steam will reduce the concentration by about half.

Greening of potatoes, especially those with light colored
skins, has become common with the switch to transparent
packaging materials. It can be prevented by avoiding
exposure of the tubers to sunlight while growing and by
avoiding exposure to light during distribution and storage.

hl

Rab Bruce <[email hidden]> wrote in
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Recently noticed that potatoes bought from supermarkets
(Sainsbury's and Co-op) develop a green tinge at/just
under the skin within a couple of days. Varies from pale
green to almost bottle-green! I believe this may be
poisonous -

Yes, they're poisonous -- do NOT consume the greenish parts
-- peel the hell out of them or better yet, just use
different potatoes.

Don't believe me, check it out for yourself.

There's this thing called Google... google.comsearchOpen ↗
8&q=poison+green+potato

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~sethra

Back in highschool (35 years ago) , our home economics
teacher was talking about potatoes and how to prepare. She
pulled out a potatoe and proceeded to peel it, then said,
look this is green, there is only one thing to do with a
green potatoe and that is throw it out - which she did.

take care Liz

Rab Bruce said:

Recently noticed that potatoes bought from supermarkets
(Sainsbury's and Co-op) develop a green tinge at/just under
the skin within a couple of days. Varies from pale green to
almost bottle-green! I believe this may be poisonous - am I
right, and if so, is it something that always happens and
I've just not noticed it, or is it a recent thing?

Rab

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Rab Bruce <[email hidden]> wrote in news:kGhvc.1895$Nm3.22192311@news-
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Recently noticed that potatoes bought from supermarkets
(Sainsbury's and Co-op) develop a green tinge at/just
under the skin within a couple of days. Varies from pale
green to almost bottle-green! I believe this may be
poisonous -

Yes, they're poisonous -- do NOT consume the greenish
parts -- peel the hell out of them or better yet, just use
different potatoes.

Don't believe me, check it out for yourself.

There's this thing called Google... google.comsearchOpen ↗
8&q=poison+green+potato

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years ago it was "proved" that eating green potatoes was
linked to the birth defect of spina bifida. the poison in
the potatoes was not killed by boiling them but the high
heat of frying did kill the toxins. as spuds are not that
expensive i would rather throw them away than eat green
ones. paula.

I was taught that it was sufficient to remove all traces of
green from potatoes; I've been doing that for 50 years with
no adverse effects.

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Back in highschool (35 years ago) , our home economics
teacher was talking

about

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potatoes and how to prepare. She pulled out a potatoe and
proceeded to

peel it,

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then said, look this is green, there is only one thing to
do with a green potatoe and that is throw it out - which
she did.

MisNomer said:

Back in highschool (35 years ago) , our home economics
teacher was talking about potatoes and how to prepare. She
pulled out a potatoe and proceeded to peel it, then said,
look this is green, there is only one thing to do with a
green potatoe and that is throw it out - which she did.

How sad that someone taching a subject would be so ill
informed. There is a substance in the skin of green potatoes
that is mildly toxic, but all you have to do is to peel off
the skin and the potato is quite edible.

Keep spuds in a dark place, this helps to avoid them going
green. Peel off all green before cooking them.

ant

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MisNomer

Back in highschool (35 years ago) , our home economics
teacher was talking about potatoes.

I suppose I can safely assume that you didn't graduate.

"high school" is two words.

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lol... I failed typing. One didn't need that to graduate
unless you were in the "non acedemic" classes.

take care Liz

On 04 Jun 2004 15:32:49 GMT, [email hidden]

(PENMART01) said:

I suppose I can safely assume that you didn't graduate.

"high school" is two words.

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[email hidden] wrote on 6/4/04 11:32 AM:

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MisNomer

Back in highschool (35 years ago) , our home economics
teacher was talking about potatoes.

I suppose I can safely assume that you didn't graduate.

"high school" is two words.

I certainly agree with you in the usage, but it is of
interest that Google has 323,000 entries for exact phrase
highschool without words high or school. Larry

Larry Preuss said:

in article [email hidden],
PENMART01 at [email hidden] wrote on 6/4/04 11:32 AM:

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MisNomer

Back in highschool (35 years ago) , our home economics
teacher was talking about potatoes.

I suppose I can safely assume that you didn't graduate.

"high school" is two words.

I certainly agree with you in the usage, but it is of
interest that Google has 323,000 entries for exact phrase
highschool without words high or school. Larry

It also has 18,800 hits for "incompetant". It always amuses
me when I see someone spelling it that way, especially when
talking about other people.

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[email hidden] wrote on 6/4/04 3:51 PM:

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Larrwy Preuss sputtered:

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PENMART01 wrote
> MisNomer writes:
>
> Back in highschool (35 years ago) , our home economics
> teacher was talking about potatoes.

I suppose I can safely assume that you didn't graduate.

"high school" is two words.

I certainly agree with you in the usage,

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imbecile.

but it is of interest that Google

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has 323,000 entries for exact phrase highschool without
words high or school.

To insult me if I disagreed would perhaps be understandable,
but to insult me when I agree is taking foolish chances.
Remember, Shelley, that long, long ago in a newsgroup far
away it became obvious that you have neither the weight nor
the wit to trade pleasantries with me. I am willing to drop
this now, but if you are simply in the game to give me
pleasure in the play of it, lay on. Larry (remember me?)

Rab Bruce had something important to tell us on Wed,
02 Jun 2004
10:08:16 GMT:

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Recently noticed that potatoes bought from supermarkets
(Sainsbury's and Co-op) develop a green tinge at/just under
the skin within a couple of days. Varies from pale green to
almost bottle-green! I believe this may be poisonous - am I
right, and if so, is it something that always happens and
I've just not noticed it, or is it a recent thing?

I prefer to be safe than sorry. If the potato is just
lightly greening then a double-peeling will take care of it.
If it's a little more green than that I'll cut off the end
with the green. And if it's green all over then I'll toss it
in the trash.

The best way to avoid greening is to store the potatoes in a
cool dark place as soon as you get them home - the greenness
is a reaction to light. And don't keep them in the plastic
bag or they'll sweat and go yucky.

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