tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post3063820913522341496..comments2024-03-28T23:22:41.774-05:00Comments on TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): Solanine poisoningMinnesotastanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01382888179579245181noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-26759844859004977732013-11-15T09:50:57.661-06:002013-11-15T09:50:57.661-06:00The solanine(I assume) in nightshades aggravates m...The solanine(I assume) in nightshades aggravates my arthritis. I don't eat potatoes, peppers, eggplant, tomatoes... Bad, generally inflammatory food for me.Pete Macknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-90075560425315798872013-11-15T07:48:20.733-06:002013-11-15T07:48:20.733-06:00I think you are remembering dosages causing death....I think you are remembering dosages causing death. Sx are said to occur at about 25 mgm.Minnesotastanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382888179579245181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-81167224501078221502013-11-15T04:43:24.682-06:002013-11-15T04:43:24.682-06:00I have read somewhere that you would have to eat a...I have read somewhere that you would have to eat around 2kg of it to be affected, hence eating 100g of potatoes of which a few percent is green would be no hazard?#noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-63282043277589108562013-11-14T21:58:14.411-06:002013-11-14T21:58:14.411-06:00thanks, spyra.thanks, spyra.Minnesotastanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382888179579245181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-3982992649972773562013-11-14T21:50:00.845-06:002013-11-14T21:50:00.845-06:00This post made me look something up that I've ...This post made me look something up that I've always wondered about. My family has planted sweet potatoes in the past and my parents and I have all eaten both tuber and leaves. (Of course, we all know potato leaves are poisonous and would never eat a green potato.) They use the terms "yam" and "sweet potato" interchangeably (ESL) so I wondered maybe what they planted were actually yams (I didn't think so because yams are monocots while potatoes are dicots; Wikipedia confirms). <br /><br />So, a quick google search yielded this: Sweet potatoes and Potatoes are related at the order level: both are from Solanales; but sweet potato leaves are edible (commonly eaten in Polynesia, Asia, and Africa, but not in the US). Looking at Solanaceae, the deadly nightshade family (does not include sweet potatoes), Wikipedia seems to suggest that only some members are toxic. <br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_potato<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanaceae<br />http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20883418spyrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03257695058373033792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-74973689505006931642013-11-14T20:08:46.460-06:002013-11-14T20:08:46.460-06:00A woman I went to school with ended up in the hosp...A woman I went to school with ended up in the hospital from eating green potatoes. Her son did not get sick because he refused to eat the potatoes complaining they tasted nasty. She got better and now knows not to eat green potatoes.Joshua Cogliatihttp://jjc.freeshell.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-38294938401927423762013-11-14T17:22:19.242-06:002013-11-14T17:22:19.242-06:00The PBS kids' show _Arthur_ had an episode cal...The PBS kids' show _Arthur_ had an episode called "Don't Eat the Green Ones," wherein DW (Arthur's younger sister) thinks she's going to die after eating a green potato chip and two kids tell her this myth. Much more entertaining than this synopsis sounds.<br /><br />Lurker111<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-15467105754468168512013-11-14T12:03:22.206-06:002013-11-14T12:03:22.206-06:00A different neurotoxin, but wild potatoes were bro...A different neurotoxin, but wild potatoes were brought to light recently as having ODAP naturally occurring in the seeds. Krakauer came to his final conclusion about its role in the death of McCandless only just recently. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/09/how-chris-mccandless-died.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com