Out of date potatoes.. are they safe?

[Charliechoco]

All these potatoes okay to eat? Their best before date was the 4th of March. They have weird white roots growing out of them.

They're fine if not green!

Peel, chop in half and into a pot of cold water with salt. Bring to the boil for 10 mins, drain and let steam dry for a few mins, shake up with a tablespoon of plain flour and into a heavy based pan of hot fat/oil with some cloves of garlic and fresh rosemary. They'll need about 45 mins in the oven with a few shakes through cooking.

It makes you wonder how there are young people when all the previous generations diced with death before fruit and veg had dates on. How ever did they manage

You thought that potatoes ripen?

Are you aware they grow in the ground therefore don’t see sunlight to ripen?

Best to take them out of the bag & throw it away so you don't see the date !

Seriously, remove the plastic & keep them in a dark place. I use a potato bag that's hessian lined with black cotton; think it came from Poundland.

But this isn’t a ‘use by’ or ‘sell by’ thing - it’s a best by thing - completely different.

As PP have said, all you need to do is to cut the growing roots off and the potatoes will be perfectly safe to eat.

I haven't seen the statistics yet.

Perhaps using the word unripe was wrong, but they do require a certain amount of growing before becoming edible... 🤔

My DF and GF were the potato growers as it was a physical and manly pursuit, the women in the family grew everything else so maybe my knowledge is a little lacking with spuds tbf.

You can eat potatoes fine for unlimited time unless they are actually rotting or have turned strange colours or smell weird etc. They don't have a specific use by date. Just cut any shoots off.

Potatoes do technically need to ripen. We are growing our own this year. When they are ready to harvest,you dig them up,if it's dry lay them on the soil,if not in the greenhouse, for the skins to harden, same as onions, otherwise they just turn to mush if you try to cook them. I had a friend who used to say she would only eat "fresh apples from abroad" in winter. They are gased, irradiated,chilled and months old when they hit the shops.i have onions in a box in my spare room picked last September.

Fine to eat. If you cut a chunk off where it has sprouted and bung in a bucket of soil you can grow your own. They won't have best before dates on them though..