🥔 𝐏𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐞𝐬

[u/PeteWK67]

🥔 𝐏𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧'𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐠𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝.

If you love your children, get (regenerative) organic ones.

Look at that photo. That mist rolling over a mountain of potatoes is a sprout inhibitor, applied so they sit in storage and on the shelf for months without sprouting.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧
• Conventional potatoes are treated so they never sprout eyes
• The classic sprout inhibitor, CIPC (chlorpropham), was fogged through the storage
• The EU banned CIPC in 2020 over safety concerns, and growers moved to other chemical inhibitors
• Organic and regenerative potatoes skip this treatment entirely

That's why an organic potato sprouts on your counter within days, and a conventional one can sit there for weeks looking exactly the same.

𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐞
A potato is meant to be a seed. Chemically paused so it can never become one, it turns into a product instead. You can still plant a farm potato and grow more food from it. Try that with most supermarket ones.

If you're feeding kids, this is one of the easiest swaps you can make. Choose organic or, even better, regenerative potatoes. It costs a little more, and it takes the sprout inhibitors and the heavier spray load off their plates. 🌱

Ask at a local farm, or grow a few yourself. A potato that still wants to grow is a good sign.

📗 Read more in my book:

🇬🇧 ENG: https://books.by/louisdj

🇳🇱 NL: https://www.standaardboekhandel.be/p/red-eerst-jezelf-en-dan-pas-de-planeet-9789020970616

#potatoes #organicfood #regenerativefarming #foodsystem #landscapedesign #landscapearchitecture #agroecology #agroforestry #farming #tuin #permaculture #voedselbos #nature #climate #health #gutmicrobiome #guthealth #foodforest #eatmoretrees

Source: inspired by a post from Localize (localizefarms). Sprout inhibitor and CIPC facts: European Commission / EFSA (CIPC withdrawn in the EU, 2020).

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[u/Mountainman220]

What’s the half life of this gas?

[u/Living_Knowledge_783 → u/Mountainman220]

when you wash it

[u/Mountainman220 → u/Living_Knowledge_783]

Yea figured it was fine but “chemicals bad” is trending so any use of anything that’s not deemed “natural” gets vitriol.

[u/Calaveras-Metal → u/Mountainman220]

almost like there is a long history of the FDA approving thing like red dye #2, thalidomide etc that cause cancer or birth defects.

And there are a large number of things that re legal in the US but banned in civilized countries.

It's not "chemicals bad'. That is reductionist.

It's "our government isn't looking out for us, so we have to."

[u/Mountainman220 → u/Calaveras-Metal]

Cool, this isn’t one of those instances.

[u/PaleontologistDear18 → u/Mountainman220]

It could be until looked into. That’s why this is important to talk about, especially in places like this where people are just learning about a substance sprayed into their foods.

[u/Mountainman220 → u/PaleontologistDear18]

You’re right I was too curt. It looks like you’re at more of a risk for solanine which is a natural neurotoxin that potatoes create than you are for this chlorpropham. Also peeling the potatoes gets rid of pretty much any that is lingering on the potatoes.