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What are Nightshade Vegetables?
- Nutrition, Health Benefits and Vitamins
Nightshade Vegetables belong to the nightshade
family of plants which bear edible and inedible
fruits and vegetables. Some nightshade plants bear
deadly, poisonous berries! Some of these annual and
perennial plants bear fruit and vegetables which are
suitable as family foods and provide high
nutritional value and health benefits.
Some of the popular types of
nightshade vegetables include tomatoes, aubergine
otherwise named eggplant, potatoes and peppers.
There is another name or term given to this
particular group or family of plants, veggies and
fruits - the name is Solanum. Other names of
nightshades may include horsenettles, Solanum
dulcamara, woody and bittersweet nightshade. The
types of plants which grow nightshade vegetables and
fruits vary from vines to trees.
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Facts
about Nightshade Vegetables
- Nutrition and Health Benefits
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Tomato,
eggplants (aubergines), peppers and potato are
nightshade vegetables
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Nightshade Vegetables
are also known by the name Solanum dulcamara
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The nutritional
value of nightshade vegetables is excellent -
veggies belonging to this family are bursting with
vitamins, minerals and nutrients which can benefit
health and wellbeing significantly.
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Nightshade
Vegetables contain solanine which is a substance
that is believed to influence inflammation and pain
of joints and muscles.
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Nightshade Vegetables Plants
- Nutrition, Health Benefits and Vitamins
The Deadly Nightshade plant is a
plant that produces highly dangerous and poisonous
berries, sometimes called cherries. The berries look
very attractive and could be mistaken for being edible
when in actual fact they're very toxic! Black nightshade
can also bear fruit that is poisonous, therefore, it is
very important to know the facts about the foods which
you are picking to eat! Children in particular should be
taught not to pick the food of plants or trees to eat if
they are not sure whether or not it is edible! Many
plants from this group can be used to make powerful
medicines! This group is also known as the Solanaceae
family, these plants provide food, spices and medicine.
Nightshade Vegetables List
- Nutrition, Health Benefits and Vitamins
The following nightshade list also
provides a list of vegetables belonging to this family:
Datura (Angel's Trumpets)
Mandragora (Mandrake)
Atropa belladonna (Deadly Nightshade - see information
above for more details)
Lycium barbarum (Wolfberry or Goji Berry)
Physalis philadelphica (Tomatillo Fruit)
Physalis peruviana (Cape gooseberry flower)
Capsicum (Chili pepper, bell pepper)
Solanum (Potato, eggplant, tomato)
Nicoatiana (Tobacco)
Petunia (Petunioideae)
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Nightshade Vegetables List
- Nutrition, Health Benefits and Vitamins of Vegetables
The following list includes some of
the most popular nightshade vegetables:
Aubergines
Bell Pepper
Chili Pepper
Eggplant
Paprika
Potato (not sweet potato)
Sweet Pepper
Tomatoes |
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Nightshade Vegetables Nutrition,
Health Benefits and Vitamins
For information and facts about
individual nightshade vegetables, please go to the main
index and select the specific vegetable where you will
find detailed information about the health benefits,
vitamins, calories, carbs and overall nutritional value.
Nightshade vegetables contain solanine which is a
substance that is believed to encourage inflammation of
the joints and
muscle pain, this is why it is suggested
that there may be a link between nightshade and arthritis. A
good way of neutralizing the solanine content is to
cook, roast of bake nightshade vegetables with miso
soup! |
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Health
experts and nutritionists believe that a well-balanced
diet that includes at least five portions of fruit and
vegetables per day will help to considerably improve our
lifestyles and ultimately extend our lives |
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