Is it safe to eat green potatoes?

VfM4meplse

Full of nasty anthrotoxins so best left well alone.

Potatoes are one veg I would avoid re-planting because of the risk if blight - could contaminate the soil even if there are no visble symptoms.

tomterm8

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

I keep my potatoes in the fridge and they never go green, hence I sometimes take weeks to eat a 2.5kg bag. If the poisonous stuff grows whether or not there is light present does it mean that you have to eat potatoes pretty much as soon as you have bought them?

You keep them in a paper sack. The poisons only grow if the potatoes are exposed to light. People used to keep them for up to 9 months in the bad old days.

vic1

I seem to have two bags of extremely green potatoes - which have been kept in the carport in their paper sacs,We are deep peeling them but even i am throwing out almost whole potatoes - i have never seen potatoes so green and i am in my 40s. have had green potatoes before but they have never been this bad if we weren't half way through sack i 'd take 'em back unfortunatley OH is on cooking duties and i have only just seen them.

Atalanta

I always thought that green potatoes were carcinogenic - is that true?
That's why I've always cut the green bits out, and made sure of keeping potatoes in the dark....

meanmarie

You should not eat green potatoes

Butterfly_Brain

You shouldn't eat them nor should you eat them when they are sprouting

Patchwork_Quilt

You could compost them or grow them in a tub.

mcafre

Can you still eat potatoes even when they aer going green and have the little growing stems coming out of them?

jackieglasgow

Yes but I peel them thickly to get rid of the green, it can give you a really upset stomach.

meritaten

NO! the green is poisonous! if there is only a little green on them then cut off the affected part but if its deep green then dont use! the little shoots are harmless and you can just peel the potatoes and as long as there is no green, use them as normal.