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That's if you're close to eating the potato almost raw. Yes, you're correct, poisons build up in the outer layers because the nutrient absorption also takes in the pesticides and the surface level cleaning agents. Obviously cooking a potato, or choosing a specific kind to eat makes a big difference. There's loads of different kinds of potatoes. The kinds most often referred to are the breakfast potatoes, or the kind that are designed for baking and stuffing.

Technically speaking, most vegetables consumed in the US are unfit for consumption, because we have a government-required process where everything is X-rayed upon delivery to check for dangerous imbedded metals in the food. While it's fine to prevent spalling from entering the food, it basically destroys the nutritional value, too. It's why farmers' markets and home grown produce have a naturally lighter and better taste.

One of the oldest ladies in the world, who lived to be 140 in Europe, was asked about how she reached that age. She responded, "if it only tastes good, spit it out."

She seemed to understand that people and food exist to deceive each other. While the basis of picking food that tastes good makes it seem like an easy choice, we've all continuously damaged our own health on the basis of picking food that we like.

Even John the Baptist refuted this mentality. He claimed that mankind was creating many health problems by only picking food by choice, instead of maintaining a healthy diet by using the resources that one can acquire locally. When locusts destroyed the crops that were being grown, he surprised everyone by capturing some of the locusts and then showing to others how the locusts could be used to provide another food source through the extraction of the nutrient paste that the locusts created through destroying the underripe crops.

My point by mentioning all of this is that nutrition, by definition, shouldn't be designed around "what tastes good," but instead by what benefits you derive from eating it.

And can anyone really claim to fully understand nutrition when we are constantly bombarded with lies about it to begin with? There's been so many different foods that we've only begun to understand have longer term damage and short term benefits.

how did you get passed the ban?