The ingenious trick to prevent potatoes from sprouting at home

Let’s assume you have purchased healthy potatoes, with smooth skin and no wrinkles, that is, a fresh tuber, not too old. These are already conditions that can make you quite calm. However, if you want to avoid the sprouts arriving later, just take a few small precautions:

Place an apple between the potatoes and, of course, increase the number of apples if the amount of potatoes is too large (the ethylene contained in apples prevents potatoes from sprouting).
Use a suitable container that facilitates transpiration, yes to wicker baskets, no to plastic ones.
Store potatoes in the dark, as light promotes the growth of sprouts.
If the tubers from the supermarket have already sprouted, do not buy them. If they only germinate to a limited extent in your home, remove the sprouts and the part underneath, but also all the green parts. Overall, it should not be thought that this represents such a serious danger. In fact, to contract solanine food poisoning, an adult would have to eat at least three kilograms of raw potatoes or sprouts, which is very unlikely.