Skins are perfectly benign, but there are potatoes you should avoid.
Root vegetables soak up everything that is around them, which is why I never eat anything root unless it is organic. Well I make an exception for parsnips, beets and swede because a don't eat them so often. Well actually I only go organic here for potatoes and carrots.
But potatoes especially should be organic because otherwise the farmers use a hideously toxic herbicide that delays the eye growth. I understand the farmers themselves won't eat these potatoes they grow, knowing as they do what is in them. And as intimated peeling the skin won't help as the stuff goes right into the flesh. Bad bad.
Another potato thing to avoid is if you see any green. This is a toxin the potato makes when it is under stress. It helps ward of disease and insects. If bugs will avoid it you know it is not good for you.
Rick
Root vegetables soak up everything that is around them, which is why I never eat anything root unless it is organic. Well I make an exception for parsnips, beets and swede because a don't eat them so often. Well actually I only go organic here for potatoes and carrots.
But potatoes especially should be organic because otherwise the farmers use a hideously toxic herbicide that delays the eye growth. I understand the farmers themselves won't eat these potatoes they grow, knowing as they do what is in them. And as intimated peeling the skin won't help as the stuff goes right into the flesh. Bad bad.
Another potato thing to avoid is if you see any green. This is a toxin the potato makes when it is under stress. It helps ward of disease and insects. If bugs will avoid it you know it is not good for you.
Rick
