Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1893 — Don't Eat Potato Skins. [ARTICLE]

Don't Eat Potato Skins.

The skin of a nicely served baked potato Is certainly a temptation to any who have tasted it, but it is just as well to resist the temptation. Quite a large percentage of potatoes are shipped in from a distance after having been preserved and packed away carefully to avoid sprouting, which quickly spoils a stack cf potatoes and leaves them almost worthless. In some parts of the country sulphuric acid is used to make sprouting impossible. The potatoes are dipped into a bath with some of the acid dropped in, and as a result the little eyes are killed, and any Intention of sprouting nipped In the bud. It is said that the acid cannot possibly penetrate the skin, and this is no doubt true. At the same time, enough of the poison may have been absorbed by the skin itself to make eating it, even after careful washing, decidedly dangerous.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.