Like, I get comments from people telling me it’s weird I always try to peel potatoes like I am trying to make the worlds longest 1-piece potato peel. To me it feels way for efficient and fun to continu down a potato in 1 peel, while circling around it, instead of randomly scraping a hundred different pieces of peel off and having to reintroduce the cutter knife to the potato for every piece.

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    Not if you remove eyes, sprouts and green parts. What you want to avoid is green flesh. If you scratch under the skin and its green pitch it.

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      The toxins exist throughout the skin, but in smaller concentration than in the sprouts and green parts. Doesn’t mean that the skin is inherently unsafe to eat, but you probably should peel it if you eat potatoes regulary, or if you’re cooking for children, old people or someone immunocompromised.

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        Toxins exist in the water you drink and the air you breathe, unless you distill the water to the point of actually being dangerous to consume.

        A small concentration of toxins is absolutely unavoidable. The presence in potato skins is pretty negligible.

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        They are in such small concentrations that your body tends to eliminate them. They do not accumulate.

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        I think cooking goes a long way to dealing with the toxins, also. Raw potatoes are very toxic.