# Green Potato Chips

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-potato-chips/531675>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 8, 2010, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-potato-chips/531675 "2010-03-08T00:57:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![SanDiegoTim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@SanDiegoTim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanDiegoTim)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-potato-chips/531675/1 "2010-03-08T00:57:58Z")

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It’s not unusual for some potato chips to have green edges. Anyone know what this is?

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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:** [March 8, 2010, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-potato-chips/531675/2 "2010-03-08T01:07:01Z")

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Chlorophyll.  
The Master gets it wrong, then corrects himself, way back in 86:  
[Are green potato chips poisonous?](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/396/are-green-potato-chips-poisonous)  
Now it used to be that greening potatoes, and sprouting eyes produced potentially toxic levels of [solanine](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanine), but I think farmers have moved to low-solanine cultivars over the past 40 years.