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Green Potatoes Make You Sick

NewBoy2NewBoy2 Posts: 1,813
in Fruit & veg
Dont run with scissors.....a swan can break your arm... mouth ulcers mean you have been telling lies and eating green potatoes makes you ill.

Has anyone eaten green spuds and got sick.?


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  • K67K67 Posts: 2,506
    Would you mind trying it and letting us know
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Bats catch in your hair, and lots of hedgerow berries means we're in for a harsh winter.
  • NewBoy2NewBoy2 Posts: 1,813
    K67 ........touche mon brave !
    Everyone is just trying to be Happy.....So lets help Them.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited April 2020
    Yes eating green potatoes can make you very ill indeed. Children are particularly susceptible to the toxins, and if eaten during pregnancy green potatoes can cause spina bifida in the foetus ... so go on, pooh pooh the warnings if you choose to, like Trump said COVID was no worse than flu .... maybe you’d like to try his recommendations for a cure as well and then you can let us know the effect of inhaling or injecting Domestos.  😉 

    Someone once told me that jumping out of planes without a parachute was dangerous ... but I’ve not seen any evidence ... although apparently scientists have done experiments ... but why should I take any notice of experts?

    https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/green-potatoes#section4

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • GemmaJFGemmaJF Posts: 2,286
    edited April 2020
    If you ate enough of them perhaps. I did read once the EU would have banned potatoes if they were discovered today!

    Don't forget never put rhubarb leaves on the compost. Despite the fact oxalic acid will break down quickly in the compost heap and you would have to eat about 10 lb of sour leaves to get seriously ill from eating them.
  • amancalledgeorgeamancalledgeorge Posts: 2,736
    Maybe stop reading the Daily Mail @GemmaJF 😂 I'm sure the members of the European Parliament love a bowl of chips with some nice mussels too. 
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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Accusing someone of reading the Daily Mail is a bit steep @amancalledgeorge😉
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • GemmaJFGemmaJF Posts: 2,286
    Never read the Daily Mail in my life. Best not to judge others from one's own low standards.  :p
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Wonder when POTUS will come up with a solution to the green potato problem by telling the farmers of Idaho to bleach them .... or maybe sunlight will cure them 🤔 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Singing GardenerSinging Gardener Posts: 1,237
    I did some research into this a while back when my husband was refusing to believe me. The consensus seemed to be that it does make you sick but very few people actually die from eating them (some do, for example in famine conditions where people might eat a lot of them). A quick google suggests that the spina bifida link has been discredited though.
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