@danosseasoning: Why is this Potato green?🤔

Erickamortier :

My Mother in law would toss put the whole bag of potatoes an say it has contaminated all of them an you cant eat any they will off you! An she grew grew potatoes well her father grew them so she knows! lol

Patrick65 :

Why green potatoes are a problem • The green color comes from chlorophyll, which itself isn’t harmful. • However, when potatoes turn green, they often also produce glycoalkaloids (mainly solanine and chaconine), which are toxic. • These compounds increase when potatoes are exposed to light, stress, or damage.

Mo :

The green is from exposure to sunlight. As long as you cut away all the green it is perfectly safe to eat.

mar_ty26. Marty :

They are green because they weren’t covered with soil … that means they had direct contact with the chemicals that were sprayed on the field

Mandooly :

Literally just researched this. Salanine poisoning. It’s caused by a neurotoxin from too much sunlight. I got two bags of golden potatoes. One looked normal and the other bag was full of green/grey potatoes. I’m so glad I didn’t fix them! I’m throwing them out

Rich Mayer :

The green color itself is not harmful, but it may indicate the presence of a toxin called solanine. Green potatoes and new sprouts on the surface contain high levels of solanine, a bitter tasting toxin that can cause illness.

matt :

Green potatoes are only for St Patrick’s Day

browno2020 :

Idk, I’ve always just cooked and ate potatoes, even if they are green (which I always heard were just sunburn).

jrkubota :

I've eaten a lot of them with no issues

Homer Jay :

Just gotta peel all the green off

Ζαχαρίας :

You know back in the day a lot of people died because of green potatoes in USA right?

Goose :

Ask someone In Idaho not these people!!

⃟ :

Idk but I play 2k.

lukethompson380 :

green is because of being out of soil in field or lights being left on in storage

DSP/ashton :

Chelsea Higgins :

the echo in the background is crazy

PCCSB :

I saw on here someone saying not to eat the green potato!

kristylivelyostee :

I’ve never gotten sick from eating these

Jean Sue :

Potatoes are nightshades. All potatoes contain a certain amount of poison. The green ones cause inflammation and can make your muscles very sore the next day. If you eat enough of them, you can die, but that’s nearly impossible. That only happened to people that had nothing but potatoes to eat.

MemyselfandI :

House lights or store fluorescent lights

Daphne Curtis Scheid :

Its fine, just not raw.

Harleyridingirl :

The green can make you sick. I peel it down until it’s not green any more. Look it up.

Just Me & I73 :

I thought they were just not ripe 😱

You_Talkin.To_Me :

Its solanine!! It comes for potatoes being exposed to sunlight for extended periods of time, and can cause severe gastric upset at minimum, and violent at worst. Even minute quantities of solanine of 2-5mg/body weight can induce these effects, with lethal doses coming at 6+mg/body weight. So (even if consumed with other foods and potatoes) its a hard rule in restaurants to discard any green potatoes.

jefwitt :

Just peel it more...