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The Mysterious Green Potato: Is It Really Toxic?

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It seems there is a food scare regarding bagged chips this time. Pay attention to one in particular.

French friesas we understand them by hearing about them at first glance, we see them as french fries per stick that we buy frozen and then we fry it at home and/or which we can easily find in all fast food outlets and restaurants. They are a much loved side dish, but for several years also a tasty snack.

In fact, during an evening in the pub in the company of friends it is not uncommon to order a large portion of french fries as a group, be they he liked chips with a wide cut or the usual ones already mentioned french fries, with plenty of mayonnaise or ketchup. However, entrepreneurs from all over the world took action by inventing a particular solution, namely the potatoes in a bag.

In this case there really are something for all tastes and shapes, we can safely say. It goes from the cut classico to that slightly wavyor even in the actual form a stick. Furthermore, over time various flavorings have also changed, capable of greatly varying the flavours.

A strange color that we have all seen for better or worse

It has already happened a few times, however, that by eating different varieties of chips in bagwe will have become aware of a thousand and more tastes, even more so now, even with the advent of Pringless and of Highlander, tastes have definitely quadrupled. It is not for nothing that we go from the classic pizza, cheese to onion, rosemary and so on and so forth.

Staying on the classic however, sometimes it has happened to find what we can in this case define as the alien potatobecause of its color, that is verde. Some have said that it is toxic and therefore it is better not to eat it. But what is it really about? Apparently it seems that it is not dangerous as they say.

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What does the green potato represent?

The potato, still being a vegetable, sooner or later also incurs the canonical plant process called chlorophyll photosynthesis. In this case it may happen that some edges of the tubers become green for the reason just mentioned. The green we see is therefore nothing other than chlorophyll.

The only flaw in this sense could be that the chlorophyll in turn produces a further substance called solanine and that it is a natural toxin but which can cause some slight irritation. The quantity however contained in a small chip of that color is too little to be considered toxic.

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2023-10-29 08:01:04
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