The harm of sprouted potatoes is a kind of vegetable that we often eat in our daily life. Potatoes are soft and delicious, which can resist aging, beautify, protect stomach, strengthen spleen, protect cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, lower cholesterol, induce diuresis and reduce swelling, and also enhance satiety to achieve the purpose of losing weight.
However, sprouted potatoes will produce a toxin called solanine. If you eat too much, you will have symptoms such as diarrhea, nausea, itchy mouth and throat, vomiting and so on. According to experts, if you take more than 300 mg of solanine at one time, it will be harmful to human body and even life-threatening. According to the calculation of 200 grams of common potato, a fully germinated potato can produce 1.800 mg of solanine. 20 16 more than 30 pupils in a school in Henan province suffered from nausea and vomiting due to eating germinated potatoes, and the poisoned students were not life-threatening after emergency treatment.
Judging from the video of this netizen, there are some sprouted potatoes in it. So can potatoes be eaten after germination and cutting? Generally speaking, potatoes that germinate less (that is, just grow a small bud) can still be eaten after thoroughly digging out the parts around the bud and cutting off the green or green parts. Soak in cold water for a while before cooking, and add proper amount of vinegar to decompose toxins. But even so, we still don't recommend eating sprouted potatoes. Food safety is greater than the sky, there is no need to take risks because of potatoes for a few cents.
After the incident, Hanchuan Municipal Market Supervision Administration went to the video shooting site to collect evidence, and no sprouted potatoes were found. They said that the incident is still under investigation and the specific investigation results will be announced. Dali Park has not explained this video for the time being.