Some dishes are made with ginger buds, such as ginger buds fried chicken, pickled ginger buds, sea bass soup and so on.

Garlic sprouting is garlic, this is more common.

But rotten ginger can not eat, rotting ginger will produce a very toxic safrole. People who eat this toxin, even in small amounts, can cause liver cell toxicity and degeneration.

Sprouting potatoes also can not eat, buds around and skin will produce a toxin called "lobelia", people eat will also be poisoned, destroy red blood cells. Therefore, the sprouted potatoes will be sprouted around the part of the sprout together with the buds, soaked in water for a period of time, and then put some vinegar to cook or fried to eat