Why do potatoes sometimes turn green?

Solanine has A bitter taste, SO he can TO DO A potato less tasty has eat. But more important, It is A toxin, SO you go to want has avoid eat Also a lot of A Green potato has protect yourself Since he. Solanine East basically A produced naturally pesticide that protected THE potato Since insects And creatures that would be eat he. Unfortunately, he can Also protect THE potato Since humans — if A person eat Also a lot solanine, they can experience symptoms as diarrhea, vomiting, fever, headache, And abdominal pain.

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Fortunately, solanine will just be concentrate In THE rooms of THE potato that to have turned Green, SO if It is only A smaller portion of THE potato It is Green, You can just peel Or cut that disabled And to use THE rest of THE potato as normal. If There is residual solanine In THE potato, It is not A huge concern: Cooking potatoes reduced THE solanine levels further away. It is Also in general Understood that You to have has eat A enough big quantity of solanine has In fact poison yourself, And case of appropriate solanine poisoning are considered very rare Today. That said, It is A poison, SO It is always wise has avoid ingest moderate the amounts of he if possible, but traces will be more Or less harmless. There are measurements of how a lot solanine will lead has poisoning symptoms, but It is not realistic Or easy For A House cook has measure THE Rising of solanine In A potato.

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