What is the principle of potato and egg poisoning?

Potatoes are a very popular ingredient because of their high nutritional value and unique taste. They can be used as people's staple food, and can also be used to make various delicious snacks, large-scale cooking, etc. It can be said that potatoes are a universal ingredient. However, potatoes and certain ingredients should be paired with caution. For example, some potatoes mixed with eggs can easily become toxic. Let's take a look at the principle of potato and egg poisoning.

Potatoes and eggs are both delicious and nutritious, but if you consume them improperly, they can cause poisoning.

Eating potatoes and eggs together can cause poisoning:

In fact, potatoes and eggs can be eaten together. Eggs and potatoes are also the most commonly used ingredients when making homemade salads. Therefore, there will not be much problem in eating them together.

However, there was indeed a report online that an 8-year-old girl ate boiled potatoes and eggs and collapsed near the school three hours after she developed red spots all over her body and died on the way to the hospital.

Later, the saying that "boiling eggs and potatoes together can be poisonous to people" became a hot topic, but experts denied this saying.

So, how did the little girl die of poisoning? It's very simple. Potato sprouts contain a special bioactive alkaloid glycoside (solanine). After eating sprouted potatoes, symptoms will appear 10 minutes to several hours after eating.

First, there will be a scratchy and burning sensation in the throat, a burning sensation or pain in the upper abdomen, followed by symptoms of gastroenteritis, severe vomiting, and diarrhea. In addition, dizziness, headache, mild disturbance of consciousness, and difficulty breathing may also occur.

In severe cases, death may occur due to heart failure or paralysis of the respiratory center. So, it’s not that potatoes and eggs cannot be eaten together, but you should not eat potatoes with sprouts.

When you cook and fry potatoes, if you find that the potatoes have sprouts, you should not only remove the sprouts, but also peel off the green part of the potato that is connected to it, otherwise it will cause poisoning.

Therefore, potatoes and eggs can be eaten together, and this is generally not a big problem. However, because potatoes and eggs are foods that can easily cause choking, and they tend to increase the body's cholesterol content and cause obesity, it is best not to eat too many potatoes and eggs.