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Got it now, thanks. Yes, I've heard that the greenish parts of the potato tuber are toxic and should be discarded. Contain some alkaloids, likely. The potato
by vram22 6y ago
Got it now, thanks. Yes, I've heard that the greenish parts of the potato tuber are toxic and should be discarded. Contain some alkaloids, likely. The potato is a plant in the Solanaceae family, which includes common edible plants like potato, tomato, eggplant, chillies, bell peppers, etc., as well as some poisonous ones like datura. In fact, I was surprised to see how huge and diverse the family is:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanaceae https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanaceae
- vector_spaces 6y agoYeah, the green parts of the potato are rich in chlorophyll due to light exposure, and the presence of high levels of chlorophyll implies the presence of toxic levels of nasty alkaloids like solanine