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> > Raw vegetables are better for you than cooked, too. Except for things like potatoes, of course, which are poisonous when raw.
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> I agree with you that raw veggies are better for you than cooked, but where did you get the idea that raw potatoes are poisonous? I spent my summers as a child on a potato farm and ate raw potatoes often!
> The tops of the plant (the green stuff above ground) ARE poisonous...the potatoe plant is part of the nightshade family.
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> Ar"loves PEI potatoes, raw or cooked"ley

Reading that link in one of the other replies, it seems like I got the idea from how they become poisonous if exposed to light when they're pulled up too early. Having green bits on them is the symptom.

Brunnen-"corrected"G