What makes potatoes turn green when stored?
My Mum always said you shouldnt use them if they have gone green, why is that?
Answers:
It's the light that makes them green, and no, you shouldn't eat them, it's the plant making chloryphyl, which acts on the sugars and starches in the potato which can turn them into a chemical called solanine, which can cause gastro enteritis (stomach upsets). For more info read here
http://www.foodscience.afisc.csiro.au/sp.
algae??
Because dangerous bacteria have entered the potatoes and well if they were cooked they wouldn't look all that appetizing.
I know if potatoes have been chilled it turns them green prematurely. And they taste nasty once they've gone green.
Thjey don't turn green because they were stored. They go green when they have grown partly out of the earth. That is because the skin of the potato makes photosynthesis and produces clorophila.
It's just the sun light that turns them green like most pants that grow out the ground go green so do potatoes when then grow out. you can still eat the green ones.
It's the lighting.
Potatoes turn green because they have been in the sun light too long. Green potatoes are known to be poisonous,don't eat them, the poison might not be great but they wont do you any good. BUT the choice is yours.
Mixture of some prior answers.Fact is kep them cool & dark..they will last longer..
so thats how they make the green crisp you sometimes get in a packet!
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Answers:
It's the light that makes them green, and no, you shouldn't eat them, it's the plant making chloryphyl, which acts on the sugars and starches in the potato which can turn them into a chemical called solanine, which can cause gastro enteritis (stomach upsets). For more info read here
http://www.foodscience.afisc.csiro.au/sp.
algae??
Because dangerous bacteria have entered the potatoes and well if they were cooked they wouldn't look all that appetizing.
I know if potatoes have been chilled it turns them green prematurely. And they taste nasty once they've gone green.
Thjey don't turn green because they were stored. They go green when they have grown partly out of the earth. That is because the skin of the potato makes photosynthesis and produces clorophila.
It's just the sun light that turns them green like most pants that grow out the ground go green so do potatoes when then grow out. you can still eat the green ones.
It's the lighting.
Potatoes turn green because they have been in the sun light too long. Green potatoes are known to be poisonous,don't eat them, the poison might not be great but they wont do you any good. BUT the choice is yours.
Mixture of some prior answers.Fact is kep them cool & dark..they will last longer..
so thats how they make the green crisp you sometimes get in a packet!
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