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Potato leaves

by Paul Winalski » Sun Jul 31, 2022 4:57 pm

I was shocked to find packages labeled "potato leaves" for sale at the local big Asian market. I had always thought that the only edible part of the potato plant is the starchy tuber and that all other parts--stems, leaves, roots--are highly poisonous. Turns out I was right, but that sweet potato leaves are edible and this is likely what I saw on sale. Or it could be something else entirely that got "potato" attached to it in some Asian language, just as what is called "yam" in English is a variety of sweet potato and nothing to do with true yams.

Could be a deadly language error to confuse sweet potato leaves with the leaves of the true potato.

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Re: Potato leaves

by Karen/NoCA » Tue Aug 02, 2022 10:21 am

Very interesting, I am always amazed what I do NOT know about food. It will be fun to see what you creative folks come up with using these leaves.

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