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The Nightshade Family (mander.xyz)
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[–] Vathsade 7 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

I can see a deadly link for nightshade for a few of them (like when potatoes turn green) but I've never heard of poisonous tomato facts... Are there any?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

any of the green parts of the tomato (even just the small bits inside the fruit) can kill small pets like hamsters or mice

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago

Many parts of the tomato plant are deadly to pets. Same goes for all nightshade members.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Europeans used to think tomatoes were poisonous. They referred to them as poison apples.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

The poison apple thing is based on works of Galen, who, seeing how he lived in Europe in the 3rd century, has never seen a tomato, nor spoken to anyone who has. But he did describe a poisonous "wolf peach" that happened to match a tomato, so obviously that must be it.

[–] mysticpickle 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

That's because they used pewter containers which were pretty common back in the day. The acidity from tomatoes would leech the lead out of the pewter and into the tomato so anyone eating this lead infused tomato product was gonna be in for a bad time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

I remember hearing that but I'd forgotten the specifics! Thanks!