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Default Green Potatoes, what to do?

Pennyaline wrote:
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> I've eaten green potatoes before and had nothing happen. I've also eaten
> green potatoes and gotten quite sick. The advice is if there's just a
> little green, little enough that you can trim it off and still have
> enough potato left to bother with, go ahead and use it. But if most of
> the potato's skin or flesh is involved, discard it.


No, don't try to trim off the green. Solanine is
not confined to the green areas. Throw it away.