Jerry Coleby-Williams

Gardening Sustainably in our continually surprising climate

Potato tubers may be green and non-toxic. Potatoes may also look normal and be lethal.

Unless you carry a laboratory in your pocket, remember this taste test:

Toxic potatoes taste bitter, and this is the best way an amateur can tell the difference.


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Green Potatoes: Are They Dangerous?

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“My question is about eating potatoes that have gone green.

I have cautioned at least 3 times over the past 18 months my local supermarkets who mark down the bags of green potatoes to sell. I am fearful the very people who would go for such a bargain are the poor & uneducated who do not realise the harm these could do to an unborn baby.

I checked out my concerns via the CSIRO site & they seem to back up what I say. But even so everyone else thinks I’m crazy. I won’t buy green potatoes myself; my concern is for other who unwittingly does so not knowing they can be harmful.

Am I right to go on complaining at the point of sale?”

Christine
Adelaide, South Australia

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