What you see: Blackish spots or holes on your potatoes like those pictured above; they may go below the peel. What it is: Likely pores that were damaged and
Black stuff on raw, peeled or chopped potatoes
What you see: Black stuff on your chopped or peeled potatoes. What is is: Oxidation after cells were damaged by chopping or peeling. Eat or toss: Eat! You can
Gray areas on your boiled potatoes
What you see: Grayish areas on your boiled potatoes.What it is: The technical term for this is after-cooking darkening, ACD for short.Eat or toss: Eat! Gray
Black speck in your hardboiled egg white?
What you see: A black speck in the white of your hard boiled eggWhat it is: A naturally occurring “blood spot” or “meat spot” that turned black after exposure
Sunken black spots on an apple’s skin
What you see: Dark, possibly black, sunken spots on your apple’s skin. What it is: Bitter pit. Eat or toss: Peel and eat! This disorder usually doesn’t go very
Black pattern inside a raw potato?
What you see: A black pattern inside your potato What it is: A number of issues cause black areas to form in potatoes; the potato pictured above most likely
Black strings in your mango?
What you see: Black veins running through mango flesh What it is: Darkened vascular canals! Eat or toss? Cut around them if you’d like, but the mango is still
Black bits on salmon may just be harmless scales
What you see: Unappealing black bits on the surface of your salmon fillet. What it is: Some wayward scales from when the fish was prepped. Eat or toss: Just
What’s this scabby stuff on my apple?
What you see: Scab-like browning on apple skin. What it is: Apple scab! Eat or toss? Eat! Just cut away the area affected by the scab. This is a fungus that
My apple is covered in sooty spots
What you see: Black smudgy spots on apple skin. What it is: A fungus called sooty blotch. Eat or toss? Eat! You’re seeing a cosmetic issue, not anything that
Sweet potatoes looking spotty?
What you see: Dark patches on the skin of your sweet potato. What it is: Scurf, a sweet potato fungus. Eat or toss? Peel and eat! This fungus only grows on the
Sometimes perfectly good peppers can have bad seeds
What you see: Dark or shriveled seeds in your pepper. What it is: Seeds that didn’t properly develop. Eat or Toss: You weren’t going to eat the seeds anyway,
