Can potatoes sprout and eat?

Potato is one of people's daily favorite foods, also known as potato, yam egg, potato, etc., for solanaceae solanaceous perennial herbs, rich in nutrition, delicious taste, and wheat, rice, corn, sorghum and become the world's five major crops, has gradually developed into a staple food crop, let's take a look at potato germination can eat it!

Can potatoes sprout and eat?

Potatoes are poisonous after germination and cannot be eaten. Potatoes contain a toxin called "solanine". Generally, the solanine content of mature potatoes is very small, and it will not cause poisoning after eating. However, the skin is purple and green, immature or sprouted potatoes, especially in the sprouted part of the toxin content is high, eating it is easy to cause poisoning, poisoning symptoms include throat itching, chest fever pain, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea and so on. And mouldy or rotted potato contains toxic content to be able to increase, contain a kind of putrefaction poison at the same time, also have toxic effect.

What about potato poisoning?

1. Immediately after potato poisoning, use strong tea or 1:5000 potassium permanganate solution to induce vomiting and gastric lavage.

2, mild poisoning can drink more sugar salt water to supplement water, and appropriate drinking vinegar water and solanine.

3, severe vomiting, abdominal pain can be given atropine 0.3~0.5 mg, intramuscular injection.

4. Serious potato poisoning shall be sent to hospital for rescue.

Prevention of potato poisoning

1. Most potato poisoning occurs in spring and early summer, because spring is wet and warm, which is not good for potato storage and easy to cause germination. Therefore, strengthening the storage of potatoes and preventing germination are the fundamental guarantees for preventing poisoning.

2. It is forbidden to eat sprouted, blue-skinned potatoes. A little sprouted potatoes that have not deteriorated can be thoroughly dug out of the sprouted bud eyes, cut off the blue-skinned parts, and then soaked in cold water for 30~60 minutes to dissolve the residual toxins in water, and then washed.

3. Add vinegar when cooking potatoes and cook them fully before eating. Heat and vinegar accelerate the decomposition of solanine, making it nontoxic. However, it is not suitable for potatoes with excessive germination and most of the skin turning purple. Even if these potatoes are processed, they cannot be guaranteed to be nontoxic.