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o ...zappatoore wrote:
I haven't boiled potatoes in decades -- I usually nuke
them in a casserole in the microwave. I don't peel them either. Life
is too short, it's true that a lot of the nutrients are just under the
skin, and just about everybody can use more dietary fibre!

I'm sorry but potatoes don't contain in their skin great lots of solanina
and nicotina?
These alcaloids couldn't be so good to increase your life duration!?

Potato tubers only develop significant amounts of toxic alkaloids when
they are exposed to light and turn green. These alkaloids have a very
unpleasant bitter taste, so people don't normally eat green potatoes
unless they are starving, and even then, you'd have to eat a lot to get
significantly ill.

Humans have evolved to cope with some amount of toxic alkaloids, as
well as to avoid foods containing them by sensitively detecting them as
a bitter taste.

I suspect the butter people put on their potatoes does more to decrease
their life expectancy than the traces of alkaloids in the potato skins!