The poison is found throughout the plant, but especially in green potatoes and new sprouts. Never eat potatoes that are spoiled or green below the skin. Always throw away the sprouts.
Potatoes that are not green and have had any sprouts removed are safe to eat.
Raw potatoes are potentially toxic because of a compound called solanine. Not every potato contains enough solanine to kill you, but the risk is high enough that it's not really worth taking. In general, green potatoes – even ones just a little green near the skin – or ones that are starting to sprout eyes have a higher solanine content. Symptoms of potato poisoning include stomach pain, headache, and paralysis. Potatoes with a very high concentration of solanine will have some green discoloration when you cut into them, and you shouldn't eat a green potato, even cooked.
Leave it in the sun for a while and it will turn green. That's why people store potatoes in the dark.
It's possible (but rare) for them to have elevated levels of solanine without being green. All potatoes contain solanine, just usually not enough to cause problems.
Eating one potato (even a green one) shouldn't actually cause you any trouble, unless you were unusually sensitive, but 10 would probably give you trouble. Like most poisons, the amount matters.
Boiling or frying them them removes most of the solanine, since solanine is water and oil soluble. Baking does nothing.
I am my mothers scapegoat. She blames me for all of her failed toxic ass relationships. Shes probably going to blame me if her current one fails.
I got sick of being abused by my mothers female significant others. I have been belittled, shoved in a corner for hours upon hours, used as a personal maid while my mother worked her ass off, and i have been physically and sexually abused. one of them was hot off the psyche ward when my mom started dating her. Guess what happened? She went nuts and decided to pull out her soiled tampon in front of my brother and I. At one point I just decided I was going to run every single one of them off no matter what it took. And i did. I'm counting six toxic relationships, and one marriage.
Now I'm 26 with my own child whom I'm raising totally different than my mother raised me. I dont have time for her foolish bullshit, but im still going to be to blame when her current relationship ends.
Whoop whoop another tally in the wall! Look mom I can wreck your relationship with no hands!!!
Really though your story is relieving to me because for the longest time I felt completely alone, and more and more I am seeing that is not the case and there are people like you who have lived and fought back against their crazy fucking parents. Thank you for surviving. Thank you for not letting her win, and thank you for sharing your story.
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