Yes, this means if you have sprouting potatoes in your pantry, you can grow those too.
No shade whatsoever to organic seed potato growers. It’s just that money is very tight right now, and these potatoes should get used either way. I’m all about repurposing something that would otherwise get tossed.
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I have literally never been able to finish the potatoes I buy before they start to sprout.
The green potatoes have solonine a poison.
Darling you can eat them, and definitely you not die, I’m from the potato’s country where 75% local dishes made from Potato 🥔. Potatoes can stay for 2-4 years in the good condition and temperature, i love potatoes specially the Butter potato’s, eat them straight after potatoes stop flowing and potatoes don’t have that thick skin . My 7 people family every year use 6500kg of potatoes in one year and all organic
This is illegal
They shouldn't have had those out for purchase. And you should have got them for free!
Amen
You crazy we use to grow potatoes
We stored them in a cool dry area they spouted all the time we picked off the spouts and cooked them normal and ate them they were perfectly fine
1.59$/lb is expensive, I buy it at 2$/10lbs
Why not the green looking ones, I've eaten those before.😮 I don't want to get sick
Why you hoarding them? How about leaving some for others? Is there a potato shortage?
i never buy seed potatoes, I just toss he old ones that sprout into my potato barrels, only dig out the ones i use and leave the rest to grow for next year, i never run out of potatoes.
Never in my life have I paid anywhere near that price for potatoes.
Smart lady ☺️😜👍
It is happening in East Europe 😂😂😂countrys too and in alll Europe
Zero shade whatsoever to seed potato growers. Certified seed potatoes are tested more often for various blights and fungal diseases, and if you can afford them, that is absolutely a great route to go. It's also true that commercial potato growers also don't want blights or fungus especially, and while not tested as frequently, planting grocery potatoes don't automatically mean blight.
I personally cannot afford the quantity of seed potatoes I would need to make a real dent in my family’s grocery bill, so these grocery store potatoes are being planted in towers completely separate from my main garden. I also will not plant any that showed obvious signs of blight, rot, or severe mushiness.
Second, I mentioned these potatoes were “not great to eat,” not that they would automatically 💀 you. If a potato at home is still fully firm and just barely starting to sprout, sure, you can cut the sprouts off and use it.
But green, actively sprouting+soft potatoes can develop elevated glycoalkaloids like solanine and chaconine, which are toxic.
To me, buying already green and sprouting potatoes from a grocery store is kind of like buying wilted lettuce. Especially when the store told me nobody was buying them and they were headed for compost anyway. Turning them into seed potatoes just makes more sense for my situation.
#allpotatos
Organic, the only industry that gets paranoid uninformed people to spend more money on a product.
U should ask them for a cheaper price because there for eating and to the store there bad and get throw out so by that logic they should be cheaper plus I use to work in produce for a couple different stores
I would have asked the manager for a discount 😆
How are we talking about organic potatoes and then bringing up covering them with chemicals that prevent natural growth cycles. Honestly, she is probably more confused on a daily bases than I am, so things balance themselves out.
Seeed potatooes? How about buy them and shove them somewhere dark for a while until they sprout like they all do
Thsvis stupid if eating eyed tarors my whole buch wld a died decades ago
You can buy them at any time, you don't need to wait for them to start chitting. Also, it's a complete myth that chitting potatoes are bad to eat. They're completely fine. Green ones I do stay away from, but starting to chit? Totally fine. No idea where that myth came from.
But they can contaminate your soil
You can eat potatoes that have sprouted. We store 4 to 5 hundred pounds of potatoes in the basement every fall. Once a month we desprout them and continue eating them
I eat all those potatoes nothing happend to me
Buy organic. Regular potatoes have been sprayed with all kinds of cr@p, one of which is a sprouting inhibitor.
Can you sue if eat a green potato & get sick?
I eat them sprouted and they still taste fine. Of cause there is a limit to the madness, but those small sprouts is no problem
This is how fresh they are at the store.
americans seem to have a fear indoctrination going on. The whole world peels those greens out EATS THOSE potatoes and ARE STILL HERE.
Them potatoes are fine to eat
THANK YOU GENIUS.
Just out of curiosity.. what happens if you eating a green potato?? 😅
nah… they're save to be eaten. Just remove those roots.
I just made potato and egg tacos with potatoes that were sprouted. Took the sprouts off and peeled them.. WTH is she talking about!!! Btw, fry them in rendered bacon fat….👌👌👌
Offended irish person here. We fought a war and won. All potatoes belong to us. Give them back. 🤨
“Monsanto wants to know your location”
Why I wont follow this woman:
1. all potatos sprout, naming them seed potatoes is ridiculous.
2. you can totally est potatoes that started sprouting, no problem whatsoever.
3. green potatoes are not poisonous, you can eat them.
She basically just bought regular potatoes to do regular potato things with them…. No wisdom found here.
And now big potato is going to jack their prices up to beef levels
Wow so the potatoes I forgot about in my closet are actually worth 8x my initial investment. STONKS!
Hint, their perfect to eat too, just peel them…and most potatoes can be used for seed potatoes.
Fun fact you can in fact eat a sprouting potato been doing it since I was a kid you're not supposed to eat the Sprouts but if you boil them long enough you can
even if they sprout they are not the same as seed potatoes you will not get the same results with those
Actually you can grow potatoes from the peel even if they'ro not sprouting
Just bury the peeling the eyes side up
Yep. Having the knowledge and ability to do it yourself saves a lot of cash. Useful skillsets.
😂😂😂 Lawd! You must be well off because all us regular people would be fine eating slightly sprouted or a teeny bit green potatoes.
We did not have much money when I was a child… I ate potatoes worse than this many a times, I'm still living😅
I've never bought a sack of potatoes that didn't sprout by itself after a week or two in the cupboard and forgetting to eat them.