# Sprouting potatoes, poison

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sprouting-potatoes-poison/340195>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 16, 2006, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sprouting-potatoes-poison/340195 "2006-01-16T05:13:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![MaryEFoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MaryEFoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaryEFoo)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sprouting-potatoes-poison/340195/1 "2006-01-16T05:13:32Z")

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For another poisonous-food question, I was taught to trim out the eyes in a potato before cooking it, since if one was sprouting it would contain a poison. And that potatoes stored in the light would turn green and be poisonous also.

How valid is this?

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**Author:** ![Yogurt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/f0a364/32.png) [@Yogurt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yogurt)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sprouting-potatoes-poison/340195/2 "2006-01-16T05:20:39Z")

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According to the Master, [yes.](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_055b.html)

Another, somewhat contradictory [cite.](http://www.hcmga.org/Poisons.html)