Al-Marsad newspaper: The head of the Food Safety Committee in Egypt, Dr. Sherine Zaki, warned once morest eating potatoes that contain green spots.
She explained that the green color is chlorophyll, which the plant uses to perform photosynthesis in order to make its own food, and it is a substance that has no harm to health, but it is evidence of the presence of another substance secreted by the plant naturally called “solanine”.
And the head of the Food Committee stated that, according to the World Health Organization, solanine can cause harmful health effects and risks to human and livestock health, and some of these toxins may be severe, so eating these green vegetables in large quantities may cause severe stomach pain, diarrhea and dehydration. throat, and long-term health consequences include affecting the immune, reproductive, or nervous system.
And I instructed the head of the Food Safety Committee, through the “Jet in the Lokma” group, to avoid buying green potato fruits, and that it is better to keep potatoes in a cool, dry, dark place, with the necessity not to put them in the balcony, because light causes the secretion of that substance with chlorophyll.
And she added, if those fruits were stored and the green color appeared, the green color can be cut with part of the fruit until we get rid of the green color completely, then the rest of the fruit that is free of green color is consumed.
