# Fried green potatoes(fast answer please)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fried-green-potatoes-fast-answer-please/568911>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 25, 2011, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fried-green-potatoes-fast-answer-please/568911 "2011-01-25T12:43:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![FuzzyOgre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@FuzzyOgre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FuzzyOgre)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fried-green-potatoes-fast-answer-please/568911/1 "2011-01-25T12:43:18Z")

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First I remembered and read this:

> **[Are green potato chips poisonous?](https://www.straightdope.com/21341573/are-green-potato-chips-poisonous)**

So how much is bad? I have a bag of greening potatoes and I just peeled them and removed the bulk of the green from them. I peeled five spuds to make lunch and dinner, and I will be the only one eating them.

The peeled surface isnt noticeably green compared to the cut sides of the slices.

Safe to eat?

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fried-green-potatoes-fast-answer-please/568911/2 "2011-01-25T13:10:23Z")

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I wouldn’t eat 'em. As I understand it, the alkaloids that build up in sprouting/green potatoes are not confined to the sprouts/green parts.

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**Author:** ![FuzzyOgre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@FuzzyOgre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FuzzyOgre)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fried-green-potatoes-fast-answer-please/568911/3 "2011-01-25T13:12:37Z")

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Thats what I figured. I’ll bin them. Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fried-green-potatoes-fast-answer-please/568911/4 "2011-01-25T14:05:05Z")

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Having once poisoned myself w fried green potatoes, I wouldn’t eat them either.  
However, the potential for pain is not as big as it once was.  
Over the past two decades farmers have, for the most part, switched to potato cultivars which produce lower levels of [solanine](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanine).

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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fried-green-potatoes-fast-answer-please/568911/5 "2011-01-25T20:28:54Z")

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I just peel the green parts off potatoes and eat them anyway, and have been doing so for 20+ years with no noticeable negative effects. Your mileage may, of course, vary.

As for the brown potato chips, I’ll arm wrestle you for those - I love 'em!