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O. T.----Potatoes

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Jiles

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I can remember growing up, my mom would never have considered serving white potatoes with skin.
She considered skin removal as part of the cleaning before cooking.
Today it seems like I am the only person in my family of friends, that don't eat the skin, especially on fries.
They say its a good source of fiber, I believe I can get my fiber elsewhere.
I feel the same with cucumbers that are trimmed and meat that is half cooked.
 
I'm not a fan either...with one exception. Whole potatoes, rubbed with a little oil, wrapped in foil, placed in the coals of the fire until the skin is close to charred. Rub off any black and eat the whole thing.
 
I really do not like the skins, but realize that is where the vitamins and minerals are, so tough it out.
 
Since I grow my own and know where they come from, and whats in the soil, I have no problems eating the skins of baked potatoes. Not the ones
with the scabs though. Certain varieties or growing conditions seem to produce scabby skins and they don't look too appetizing. Fine on the
inside though.
 
Seems everyone used to peel potatoes and cucumbers, not so much anymore. I like to peel my apples, but not much else if anything.
 
(quoted from post at 20:18:10 01/27/18) Seems everyone used to peel potatoes and cucumbers, not so much anymore. I like to peel my apples, but not much else if anything.
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Time and People change--Nothing wrong with that.
 
I make no special effort to eat the skins nor to avoid eating them. I do make a deliberate effort not to eat any green skins. Toxic.
 
The skin is the best part of a baked
potato.

Green and black spots aren't good. Scab is
just ugly, it won't hurt you.
 
What a lot of people don't realize is that potatoes are poisonous
https://www.thedailymeal.com/eat/your-potato-poisonous-here-s-how-tell-if-its-toxic
So not every potato is poisonous but it doesn't hurt to educate ones self on the topic. Many will say I have eaten potatoes all my life and it never hurt me . You have to understand what is at play here . Potatoes produce a poison to help with potato bugs eating them . The stems and leaves are very poisonous and can make you very sick if you ate them or made tea from the leaves . Some say a green colored potato is poisonous or it will make you sick . To understand this you need to think like a potato . The green color is just clorifill (sp)--- just an attempt of the potato to increase its ability to change sunlight into food . The green color is an indication that the potato MAY be poisonous . The plant sends poison to all areas that may be attacked and eaten by bugs -- and if the potato tuber is exposed to the sunlight then it turns green and also it is exposed to the bugs that want to eat it -- so the green parts start to get poisonous . As far as the amount of poison -- every potato and plant is different . Potatoes originally came from south America and were very poisonous -- they have been breed to be eatable over the centuries and also have traveled all over the world.If you keep your seed for use next year and in my case I did it every year for quite some time . Every year you do this they revert a little more every year back to what they were in the beginning -- very poisonous . The worse a potato looks the more likely it is to make you sick --- because the potato thinks it is being attacked so it makes more poison. Rotten potatoes or potatoes that have been injured (cut etc) while being harvested are very likely to be poisonus . Some people are far more sensitive to potato poison ( solaline) than others . In my case after eating a bad potato it takes a day or so then my arthritis gets very bad . It doesn't cause arthritis but it takes what is happening in your body and makes it much worse . So if you are suffering from extremely painful joints stop eating potatoes ( and the other nigh shade plants -- look it up on th internet) for a month or so and like me you may notice a vast improvement . I have asked Doctors about this and they are very reluctant to comment .Potato growers of course don't want any body to hear this . Dr's will prescribe anti inflammatory drugs and pain killers for sure but wont say that potatoes are causing 70% of you pain .
I find that if potatoes are peeled that is where most of the poison is . Even better if they are boiled as the poison is water soluble . Frying them in oil seems to drive the poison in . Baking a potato in the skin also drives the poison in . Some people are going to say I am full of it and I don't know what I am talking about --- well this poison doesn't affect every body . Tobacco plants are the same family (night shade plants) and they produce nicotine to kill there bugs . Some people love the nicotine in tobacco and others it makes them sick .
 
(quoted from post at 21:14:05 01/27/18) What a lot of people don't realize is that potatoes are poisonous
https://www.thedailymeal.com/eat/your-potato-poisonous-here-s-how-tell-if-its-toxic
So not every potato is poisonous but it doesn't hurt to educate ones self on the topic. Many will say I have eaten potatoes all my life and it never hurt me . You have to understand what is at play here . Potatoes produce a poison to help with potato bugs eating them . The stems and leaves are very poisonous and can make you very sick if you ate them or made tea from the leaves . Some say a green colored potato is poisonous or it will make you sick . To understand this you need to think like a potato . The green color is just clorifill (sp)--- just an attempt of the potato to increase its ability to change sunlight into food . The green color is an indication that the potato MAY be poisonous . The plant sends poison to all areas that may be attacked and eaten by bugs -- and if the potato tuber is exposed to the sunlight then it turns green and also it is exposed to the bugs that want to eat it -- so the green parts start to get poisonous . As far as the amount of poison -- every potato and plant is different . Potatoes originally came from south America and were very poisonous -- they have been breed to be eatable over the centuries and also have traveled all over the world.If you keep your seed for use next year and in my case I did it every year for quite some time . Every year you do this they revert a little more every year back to what they were in the beginning -- very poisonous . The worse a potato looks the more likely it is to make you sick --- because the potato thinks it is being attacked so it makes more poison. Rotten potatoes or potatoes that have been injured (cut etc) while being harvested are very likely to be poisonus . Some people are far more sensitive to potato poison ( solaline) than others . In my case after eating a bad potato it takes a day or so then my arthritis gets very bad . It doesn't cause arthritis but it takes what is happening in your body and makes it much worse . So if you are suffering from extremely painful joints stop eating potatoes ( and the other nigh shade plants -- look it up on th internet) for a month or so and like me you may notice a vast improvement . I have asked Doctors about this and they are very reluctant to comment .Potato growers of course don't want any body to hear this . Dr's will prescribe anti inflammatory drugs and pain killers for sure but wont say that potatoes are causing 70% of you pain .
I find that if potatoes are peeled that is where most of the poison is . Even better if they are boiled as the poison is water soluble . Frying them in oil seems to drive the poison in . Baking a potato in the skin also drives the poison in . Some people are going to say I am full of it and I don't know what I am talking about --- well this poison doesn't affect every body . Tobacco plants are the same family (night shade plants) and they produce nicotine to kill there bugs . Some people love the nicotine in tobacco and others it makes them sick .
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You need to do alot more research on potatoes. Half of what you said is false.
check this site out.[https://cipotato.org/crops/potato/][/url]
 
Guess i should have died 50 years ago then . I would hate to tell you or even try and tell you how many TONS of taters i was around and for a LIGHT snack in the fields while harvesting them grab a RAW TATER and CHOW DOWN . whip them across the jeana and have a bite . From the end of August on thru mid November acres and acres were harvested load after load got put in the storage barns , Then the grading and bagging started , 5 pound thru fifty pound bags washed dried graded and bagged and trucked out .
 
Would you like to take the time to specify exactly what I said that was false . Your link doesn't say much -- may be you sent the wrong one ?
 
(quoted from post at 21:14:05 01/27/18) . Potatoes originally came from south America and were very poisonous -- they have been breed to be eatable over the centuries and also have traveled all over the world.

I have found no evidence that wild potatoes are poisonous.
Bitter yes but not poisonous.






If you keep your seed for use next year and in my case I did it every year for quite some time . Every year you do this they revert a little more every year back to what they were in the beginning -- very poisonous .



In the potato world when you say I am planting potato seed you mean you are planting potatoes not potato seeds or seed tubers. I assume you planted potatoes not seeds or tubers. In the world of biology you just cloned a plant. Plant a potato today and use the stock every year for 25 yrs and it will have the same DNA profile.
There are 3500 varieties of potatoes in South America. Many grown only in one village. Potatoes have been grown for about 8000 years. By your logic they should all be dead.

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I find that if potatoes are peeled that is where most of the poison is . Even better if they are boiled as the poison is water soluble . Frying them in oil seems to drive the poison in . Baking a potato in the skin also drives the poison in . Some people are going to
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one other thing.
You posted.

I find that if potatoes are peeled that is where most of the poison is . Even better if they are boiled as
the poison is water soluble . Frying them in oil seems to drive the poison in . Baking a potato in the skin
also drives the poison in .

70% of the SOLANINE is in the potato not the skin. Could not fine source to link it. Also SOLANINE do not
desove in water. See this chemistry site. pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/442984#section=Color

If you disagree please post scientifical evidence that can be traced.
 
]The only test I could find for the farmer to do in the field - for solanine is the bitter taste test . Solanine is very bitter and as far as I know is the only thing that makes potatoes bitter. I would love to find a portable field test kit that would test for solanine . Like I stated some people are not affected by this poison -- and others are very susceptible . My guess would be that people that have eaten potatoes for hundreds of generations have developed an immunity to it == such as natives of south/central America . To say that THEY should all be dead by now is a ridiculous statement -- makes me think you are a potato farmer on your own agenda . I did read some where that solanine was water soluble in a scientific report but I will never find it tonight.
If you re read my post I didn't day that eating potatoes was going to kill every body . Read that I said earing stems or leaves is very poisonous and can make you very sick and in extreme cases can kill . The poison is found in the tubers as well in varying amounts and like I said every potato is different depending on how threatened the plant feels by bugs--- such as exposure to the air. In my case and a lot of people that don't realize it it causes crippling arthritic flair ups ---- along with the other night shade plants .
Some reading for people that are interested below
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