sprouting potatoes - safe to eat?

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i buy the big bags of baking potatoes and they seem to sprout really quickly (i keep them in a dark cool cupboard) the lady at the shop says they are safe to eat, just remove the sprouting bits, only unsafe when they become green and soft! is this right?

No dont they will give yout he shits

I regularly de-sprout baking potatoes and no squits yet in house of Marina...but would instantly chuck green spongy ones.
I hope your domestic hygiene is up to scratch Michelle I am off to visit your website shortly and hope to come away with nothing more than quality plastic goods.

i've been told not to eat them too... cant remember why though

Well we often eat sprouting potatoes and have always been fine.

LOl marina

I just pull the sprouty bits off.

Michellefromlakeland, do you still do the Lakeland potato keeper? And I know you still do the stay fresher longer bags. Missed a sales opportunity there, tut tut.

shit

spudulike

I eat sprouting potatoes all the time and I've not had an ill effects.

Oooh! Back in a mo

No unwarranted squits in the Inferiority Complex either, despite frequent sprout removal.

Well, better late than never. You want to watch out, 'chelle, you're knocking on a bit now...got to stay on the ball, or Julian will replace you with some young dolly-bird, with an MA in marketing.

dont eat them like this

We've had sprouting ones and i just peel them off and we are fine, you know when they are not right.

Julian - get out of the stock cupbaord

he he

my mum always told me not to consume potatoes that have sprouted because in scientific studies it has been proven they cause cancer. i do not have any proof that this is so, have never researched the subject so can't guarantee my mum is telling the truth! but my mum never lied to me and she's a very well read lady, so maybe it's true. she's been telling me this for years. ofcourse, if i only have 4 potatoes left in the cupboard and have started sprouting (the little white bits) and am in the middle of cooking i would use them. if mum was to see that she would make a terrible fuss. with my narrow mind though i can only associate such an explanation to some sort of growth mechanism : for example, cancerous cells develop very quickly and use all sorts of growing stimulies, there was actually a program on radio 4 a couple of years ago about cancer and milk consumption in adults; the theory there was that milk is for growing animals and people (babies, calfs, lambs etc), in the animal world adults don't consume milk, milk makes you grow when you're little, so if you have cancer it's best to avoid milk and diary products because
cancerous cells would somehow absorb the growing qualities from this milk and get bigger. All the above, you understand, i've put in in very simple terms as it got filtered through my simple mind, but just to give you an idea on growing and cancer. so really, don't eat these potatoes because my mum says so. there!

crikey branster just when i thought they were safe!! seriously my mum has also said the same thing but she gives me a lot of advice via radio 4 and is an avid 'daily wail' reader so there may be a rebellion issue on my part! have also read the same study regarding dairy. very difficult as we don't eat meat. i get very bad hayfever and had acupunture and the practicioner told me i mustn't have dairy. i dutifully got soya milk, butter etc. and lasted 2 days - thoroughly miserable. if i had a live in chef then maybe i could but NO icecream???

not easy to cut out dairy. do they not do dairy free icecream yet? i wonder how it tastes... is this soya milk tasty at all? i've never tried anything that drastic.

No, no, no - not the potatoes!

you can get dairy free icecream in Asda

I fancy that potato bag, think you've got yourself another customer