Sweet potato sprouts don't contain toxins So, great news for Yumi and her purple moptop root! Louisiana State University horticulturist David Picha assured me that not only are sweet potato sprouts free from dangerous loads of toxins, they're also edible. 1 мая 2020 г.
Are sprouted sweet potatoes poisonous?
A sprouted potato is still safe to eat—use the top loop on a vegetable peeler to scoop out sprouts. So you've got a potato with eyes. Don't look away. These eyes (or sprout, as they're sometimes called) contain glycoalkaloids, compounds that turn potatoes green and are potentially toxic.
What to do with a sweet potato that has sprouted?
Once your sweet potatoes have sprouted, you have to separate them into plantable slips. To do this, you take each sprout and carefully twist it off of the sweet potato. Lay each sprout in a shallow bowl with the bottom half of the stem submerged in water and the leaves hanging out over the rim of the bowl.
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