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Bad Sweet Potatoes

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My biggest waste at the moment still seems to be food. I've got quite a pile of sweet potatoes that are past thier best.

Now I know you can't eat normal potatoes after a while if they are green or sprouting then they contain neurotoxins but do sweet pototes do a similar thing? Are there any other vegetables that are bad for you after thier prime?

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  • tawnyowls
    tawnyowls Posts: 1,784 Forumite
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    Now I know you can't eat normal potatoes after a while if they are green or sprouting then they contain neurotoxins but do sweet pototes do a similar thing? Are there any other vegetables that are bad for you after thier prime?

    As said on a thread some time back, I (and several others) have never bothered about all that "don't eat green potatoes - they're poisonous!" stuff, and we're still here! I just use a potato peeler and take off the green bits. I read somewhere that you need to eat something like 100-400 pounds of spuds to get a lethal dose of the poison.

    Sweet potatoes should be fine - they don't even belong to the nightshade family (potatoes, tomatoes, deadly nightshade), so don't produce the poison anyway.
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