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What makes potatoes green?

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Heat forces the gases surrounding the vegetable cells to expand and escape. As a result, you can see the green pigment, chlorophyll, more clearly. It's rather like fog fading away to let light reveal the color.

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I was always taught that green spots on potatoes were caused by the sun.

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the plants are nature

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It contain a pigments called Chlorophyll.

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