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[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Raw potato (peeled) is quite delicious.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

it's also poisonous! potatoes are related to deadly nightshade, but much less potent. cooking them makes the glycoalcaloids break down.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

No they are not, that is a wives tale.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

Thanks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Wait, some people cook it?