How can a 'Couch Potato' eat potatoes if they have an allergy to it?!


Question: I heard allergy is rare to potatoes so what could someone do if they have an allergy to it? Could they still eat it and how would they have to have it prepared it?

Thanks alot for your answers.


Answers: I heard allergy is rare to potatoes so what could someone do if they have an allergy to it? Could they still eat it and how would they have to have it prepared it?

Thanks alot for your answers.

I am allergic to potatoes - and all nightshade family foods - but can eat RED potatoes.
This is because white potatoes belong to the Solanaceae family of flowering plants, (The name of the family comes from the Latin Solanum "the nightshade plant"), and RED potatoes & SWEET potatoes DO NOT. Red & sweet potatoes do not have the sometimes-toxic alkaloid that nightshades do (which actually make them nightshade family).

The family is also informally known as the nightshade or potato family. The family includes the Datura or Jimson weed, eggplant, mandrake, deadly nightshade or belladonna, capsicum (paprika, chile pepper), potato, tobacco, tomato, and petunia.

Solanaceae species are often rich in alkaloids that can range in their toxicity to humans and animals from mildly irritating to fatal in small quantities.

Alkaloids
The Solanaceae are known for possessing a diverse range of alkaloids. As far as humans are concerned, these alkaloids can be desirable, toxic, or both, though they presumably evolved because they reduced the tendency of animals to eat the plants.

One of the most important groups of these compounds is called the tropane alkaloids. The term "tropane" comes from a genus in which they are found, Atropa (the belladonna genus). The belladonna genus is so named after the Greek Fate, Atropos, who cut the thread of life. This nomenclature betrays the toxicity and lethality that has long been known to be characteristic of these compounds. Tropane alkaloids are also found in the Datura, Mandragora, and Brugmansia genera, as well as many others in the Solanaceae family.

I have yet to see Red-Potato chips for sale, but you can make your own easliy enough. Otherwise, avoid everything that has potato or potato flour in it.

Bon apetit!
Kim
WhispersInTheWinds.com

No, then they would not be able to eat potatoes. However, sweet potatoes are different and they could probably eat those.

Actually I was doing some reading and research this morning when I was answering another question and surprisingly enough potatoes contain natural latex, could that be the problem? I would say no matter how you cut it preparing them differently would not make any difference. How over there are alternatives such as sweet potatoes, rice etc.

I am sorry to say that. Don't... eat it. You could isk getting sick





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