Can't eat. Purple potatoes and potatoes like sprouting can not be eaten again, because purple potatoes contain a lot of starch, purple potatoes in the process of sprouting will produce enzyme degradation of starch, starch in the process of degradation will produce some toxins, and nutrients will be a lot of transfers to the purple potatoes around the shoots, the supply of the shoots to grow, the purple potatoes at this time the tubers will be soft, lose the sweetness, but also with a little bit of the stench of the raw sweet potato leaves, it is not suitable for eating again.

Purple potato sprouting, starch and sugar will be degraded into the nutrients needed for sprouting, and gradually become shriveled, wilted, neither full, the taste will be dry and firewood, food value greatly reduced.

Two, how to save purple potatoes will not sprout?

Purple potatoes, potatoes and other tuberous plants in the preservation of the need to avoid light, dry environment, in a moist and dark environment is easy to sprout. So, buy back the purple potatoes should be properly preserved.

1, put the refrigerator

Purple potatoes are very rich in nutrients, preservation methods are not appropriate, it is easy to make these nutrients are lost, you can put the purple potatoes in the refrigerator to save, but purple potatoes contain a very rich content of starch, but the low temperature will destroy the starch of the organization, it is best not to long time in the refrigerator.

2, drying

Put the purple potatoes in the sun to dry for a day or so, and then put the purple potatoes in a cool, ventilated place, spread out, so that the preservation, not easy to rot and deteriorate.

3, made of dried purple potatoes

Dried products will be preserved longer than fresh purple potatoes, home if there are a lot of purple potatoes, you can consider making purple potatoes into dried purple potatoes.

The above is the introduction of purple potato sprouting, in order to prevent the sprouting of purple potatoes, usually we can first half a day of sun, remove the water in the purple potato tubers, and then stored in a dry paper box in a dark, dry place, you can alleviate the sprouting of purple potatoes. Or choose to put it in the refrigerator, the preservation time will be longer.