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Re-engineering Potatoes To Remove Their All-Natural Toxins (hackaday.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Lectins, anti nutrients, oxalates (though these are not really in potatoes)

From an evolutionary perspective, animals can run away, hide, fight - to survive and reproduce. Plants, however, can't do any of those things, what they can do, is be toxic so that animals won't eat them.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That's my strategy, too!

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