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There is no such thing as a vegetable (sopuli.xyz)
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[โ€“] epicstove@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't tomatoes that are related to Nightshade and that's why they were considered poisonous for so long?

Potatoes have a flower that's poisonous so people initially avoided eating any part of the plant but fed potatoes to livestock.

[โ€“] Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 hours ago

Tomatoes and potatoes are both from nightshade family. Tomatoes were considered poisonous because they did poison people, either by belladonna being mistaken for tomato or the lead silverware leeching, it's relation to the family happened to take the fall for these poisonings.