No matter how hard you try to conserve food, finding the occasional piece of produce rotting in your fridge is unavoidable. But a vegetable's expiration date isn't always obvious. Before it rots, a potato may grow knobby, greenish bumps on the outside that weren't there when you bought it. They may not look appetizing, but are potato sprouts unsafe to eat?
Sprouts are simply a sign that a potato is trying to grow. When they're harvested, potatoes enter a natural dormant state, but they only stay that way for so long. After enough time has passed, tiny tubers will erupt from the potato's "eyes" or buds. If the potato were still in the ground, these sprouts would eventually form new plants.
The question of whether or not a sprouted potato is still OK to eat is complicated. The sprouts themselves shouldn't be eaten, as they contain high concentrations of the toxins solanine and chaconine. These toxins, called glycoalkaloids, can cause headaches, vomiting, and digestive issues when consumed in high quantities.
But cutting the sprouts off the outside of a tuber doesn't automatically make it 100 percent nontoxic. Poison Control recommends tossing out any potatoes that have grown sprouts, though that may be a very cautious approach. Toxic glycoalkaloids are present throughout potatoes, but they're most concentrated in the eyes, skin, and sprouts. The Poison Control also advises against eating potato peels under any circumstances.
Dr. Rich Novy, a geneticist from the USDA Agricultural Research Service, told Best Food Facts that potatoes that have sprouted are fine to eat in most cases. The biggest chemical change that takes place when a potato sprouts is the conversion of starches to sugars to feed the growing buds. If a potato still feels firm after the sprouts have been removed, it has most of its nutrients and can be salvaged. But if it feels soft and wrinkly, it's gone bad and should be tossed out.
The best way to avoid making tough decisions about old produce is to store it properly. Here's where you should be keeping fruits and vegetables to make them last longer.
The ordinary act of grocery shopping has been complicated by the COVID-19 crisis. In addition to worrying about exposing themselves to the novel coronavirus, shoppers also have to deal with long lines and limited supply. But as KXAN reports, one hospital chain is making this errand easier for an especially deserving group of people.
The Seton Healthcare Family, which operates hospitals across the country, has opened pop-up shops for health care workers in its hospital cafeterias. The mini-markets sell the same staples found in many major stores like eggs, milk, pasta, produce, and other essentials that are all available to hospital employees. They also carry items that are currently harder to find like toilet paper.
The point of the project is to keep health care workers out of busy supermarkets, so they can spend more time at home. After a successful debut at Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas at Austin, the network is rolling out pop-up stores in hospital cafeterias in 20 states. The markets have been so well-received that the chain is considering keeping them even after the current crisis.
The novel coronavirus pandemic has inspired creative efforts to make life easier for health care professionals. In March, Crocs pledged to donate 100,000 pairs of shoes to medical workers on the front-lines of the crisis.
[h/t KXAN]
April is National Grilled Cheese Month, and there's no better way to enjoy the comfort food than with the cheese-loving people in your life. If you're quarantined away from loved ones during the COVID-19 pandemic, you can use the social streaming platform Airtime to make the same recipe together from anywhere in the world.
Airtime is an app that merges Group FaceTime and YouTube onto one screen, so you can watch and react to videos with your friends while social distancing. You can use the app to watch memes, music videos, or, as the app suggests for Grilled Cheese Month, instructional videos everyone can follow along with in real time.
The recipe below for a Flamin' Hot Cheetos grilled cheese sandwich is one of the videos recommended by Airtime. If you're looking for a fun, indulgent recipe to make at home, assemble the ingredients beforehand (bread, butter, Velveeta, and Flamin' Hot Cheetos) and join a video session with your friends where you can watch and follow the recipe together. When it's over, you can see whose masterpiece best matches the video—and who's brave enough to eat the whole thing. Even if you don't feel like cooking along, watching over-the-top recipe videos online with friends can be a fun activity on its own.
Airtime is recommended for four to five friends per session, and you can download the app for Android or iOS. For more virtual activities to do with loved ones when you're apart, check out these board games you can play online.
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