Cheese like slime on potato, but no pinkness
I had some potatoes in the back of a cupboard, and one solitary potato has sort of disintegrated into a cheesy yellow slime.
The skin looks mostly intact, and the slime is sticky exactly like melted cheese. I looked up potato slime, and the only similar ailment was pink slime, but there's no pink here.
They were not old enough for any other signs of rot.
I've washed the other potatoes, and will monitor them.
What happened to that one potato.
Best Answer
It rotted - that's about all you can say from this. Most likely a bacterial rot rather than a fungal rot. If you bought them recently, it was probably already rotting.
This is a form of soft rot, which is a common disease of potatoes world-wide, and can even destroy whole crops in the field. There are a range of bacteria that cause these rots, but Pectobacterium is a common genus for this form of rot.
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Clostridium puniceum is a bacteria that spews a pink slime on potatoes. Sounds kind of gross, right? But ingredients in the slime may also help fight dangerous antibiotic-resistant germs like MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus).What is pink stuff on potatoes?
When you cut into the potato, you damage the cell walls that keep everything nice and tidy. The phenols and the enzymes meet the oxygen coming in from the outside world, causing a chemical reaction to take place. This chemical reaction results in \u2013 you guessed it \u2013 pink potatoes.Gumball | Darwin's Potato Diet | The Potato | Cartoon Network
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