Potatoes contain twice as much vitamin as carrots. Eating potatoes has many benefits, and women can eat more potatoes for beauty and skincare. However, sprouted potatoes should not be consumed!
[Beauty and Skincare]
Potatoes can provide the body with a lot of special protective mucoproteins.
It can promote the lubrication of the digestive tract, respiratory tract, joint cavity, and serous cavity, prevent the deposition of fat in the cardiovascular and system, maintain the elasticity of blood vessels, and prevent the occurrence of atherosclerosis.
Potatoes are also alkaline vegetables, which are beneficial to the acid-base balance in the body, neutralize the acidic substances produced after metabolism, and have certain beauty and anti-aging effects.
[Reasons for Poisoning from Sprouted Potatoes]
Potatoes contain a biogenic amine called solanine.
The normal amount of solanine in potatoes is small, about 2-10 milligrams per cent. When potatoes sprout and the skin and flesh turn green, the solanine content increases.
Ingesting 0.2 to 0.4 grams of solanine can cause poisoning.
[Symptoms of Poisoning from Sprouted Potatoes]
Symptoms generally appear within ten minutes to several hours after eating, including burning pain in the stomach, numbness in the tongue and throat, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, elevated body temperature, headache, coma, sweating, and palpitations in severe cases.
In children, it can cause convulsions and coma.
