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What happens if you eat a bad sweet potato?

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In addition, rotten sweet potatoes with mold can consist of dangerous bacteria, resulting in food poisoning. Therefore, be careful with your bad sweet potatoes and throw them away to protect your health.


Can I eat a bad sweet potato?

When it comes to pithy sweet potatoes, as long as the inside of the potato has only a few holes here and there, it should be perfectly safe to eat. If the holes are all over the place, throw it away to be safe. That sweet potato probably isn't spoiled, but it will taste bad, so there's no point in cooking it.

How do you know when a sweet potato is bad?

If the sweet potatoes start turning soft or mushy, they have gone bad. The same thing is true for sweet potatoes that turned a deep shade of brown to black. Check for weird growths through the skin or the presence of mold. If the sweet potatoes have developed an off-odor, toss the tubers in the trash.

What happens if you eat an off sweet potato?

Indeed, what happens if you eat a bad sweet potato? Well, it may indeed make you not feeling well or even cause a light food poisoning if you're very sensitive to bad food but no nasty aftermath is possible unless you consume a whole plate of badly rotten veggies which is hardly possible!

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