Can you still eat purple potatoes when they sprout?

Purple potato is nutritious and tastes sweet and waxy, and many people like it, but sometimes it is easy to sprout when it is improperly preserved, so can purple potato still be eaten when it sprouts?

Can you still eat purple potatoes when they sprout?

1. Purple potatoes can still be eaten when they germinate and will not produce toxins, but their nutrients will be damaged and their taste will decline. It is recommended to cut off the germinated parts as soon as possible. If there is less germination, cut off the germinated part, steam it and eat it; if it germinates more, it is not recommended to eat.

2. Many people think that potatoes cannot be eaten when they germinate, and so can purple potatoes. In fact, potatoes belong to the Solanaceae family, and solanin is produced after germination. This toxin is mainly distributed in Solanaceae plants, so it cannot be eaten; while purple potatoes belong to the family Spirulaceae, which does not produce toxins after germination, so they can be eaten.

3. The starch content of purple potato is relatively high, the enzyme that degrades starch will be produced in the process of germination, and toxin will be produced in the process of degradation, and the purple potato after germination is easy to mildew and rot, and it is easy to be poisoned after eating, so we should pay attention to it.

4. After the purple potato sprouts, a large number of its nutrients will be transferred around the tender buds to supply the tender buds to grow. At this time, the purple potato will become soft, lose its sweetness, and have a little smell of raw sweet potato leaves, which is not suitable for consumption.

5. If you don't want it to sprout, you should pay attention to preservation, and you need to avoid light and dry environment when you save it. Therefore, the bought purple potato should bask in the sun for half a day, remove moisture, and then put it in a dry cardboard box and put it in a dark, dry place.

6. If you can't eat purple potato after sprouting and don't want to discard it, you can plant it: first of all, cut the mouth of the plastic bottle neatly, put the germinated purple potato in, pour water into half of the purple potato, put it in a sunny place, and change water every day. When it grows thin roots and twigs, it is transplanted into the soil; when it grows a lot of leaves, it can pinch the buds and eat them.