Nightshades are a diverse family of flowering plants, both edible and non-edible. Here’s what you actually need to know about the vilified vegetables - via healthing_ca healthing health healthnews
Nightshades — potatoes, eggplants, bell peppers and tomatoes — are unfairly vilified all over the internet.Nightshade vegetables — eggplants, tomatoes, potatoes and bell peppers — get a bad rap. GETTY
Nightshades have been getting a bad rap recently. Here’s what you actually need to know about the vilified vegetables.are a diverse family of flowering plants, both edible and non-edible. For most of us, the most relevant nightshades are the commonly available edible varieties such as tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants and bell peppers.
From the perspective of a dietitian, these particular foods are characterized by their rich content of fibre, potassium and unique antioxidant compounds that offer additional benefits to our health., while bell peppers are among vegetables richest in Vitamin C.Well, it depends who you ask. In some parts of the online “health” world, the nightshade family of vegetables have been vilified as being inflammatory or even toxic foods.
There are, however, only negligible amounts of these compounds in the actual edible components of nightshade foods. That’s why the majority of otherwise healthy people aren’t rushed to the hospital after eating a tomato salad. Some nightshade detractors say that while not acutely toxic, the consumption of tomatoes, bell peppers, eggplant and potatoes could ultimately contribute to bodily inflammation. But as this Harvard School of Public Health article aptly states, that’s an “unfounded myth”:In some rare cases, yes. A very, very small number of people could be allergic to nightshades.