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All fruits can be eaten raw, right ? Ok, now eat the raw potato.
Raw potato (peeled) is quite delicious.
it's also poisonous! potatoes are related to deadly nightshade, but much less potent. cooking them makes the glycoalcaloids break down.
Isn't tomatoes that are related to Nightshade and that's why they were considered poisonous for so long?
Potatoes have a flower that's poisonous so people initially avoided eating any part of the plant but fed potatoes to livestock.
Tomatoes and potatoes are both from nightshade family. Tomatoes were considered poisonous because they did poison people, either by belladonna being mistaken for tomato or the lead silverware leeching, it's relation to the family happened to take the fall for these poisonings.
No they are not, that is a wives tale.
it's not. they do contain glycoalcaloids, which are toxic. however, unless the skin has been exposed to sunlight during growth the concentration tends to be low.
Most things are toxic, it's the dose that makes it harmful.
Right, my knowledge was that the rest of the plant was poisonous, not the potato itself. But obviously once it starts sprouting it'll become poisonous.
I guess you're right on a technicality fair enough lolll
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no the tuber is also toxic when raw. it's just not very toxic. eat a few hundred grams though and you will have moderate issues.
Wait, some people cook it?
Idk maybe it's a variety thing but the one I tried was all starch and no taste except some kind of sourness. Exactly the kind of stuff that would make one say "this apple tastes horrible". IIRC it was the variety to make mashed potatoes.
It is a variety thing for sure. I wouldn't be snacking on a raw Russet that hadn't been cooked yet. But some thin slices of a Huckleberry Gold with a dash of olive oil and salt is tasty.