Do you know tomatoes were once considered poisonous?

Do you know tomatoes were once considered poisonous?

Tomato is used in almost every recipe. But do you know that people considered tomatoes poisonous for almost 200 years in Europe!

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The tomato was thought to be toxic in Europe and America until mid-1800s

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People in western countries feared and avoided consuming tomatoes from 15th century to 18th century

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Tomatoes were considered poisonous because its plant contain a toxic alkaloid tomatine

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European courts even nicknamed the tomato the ‘poison apple’

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In 1820, Colonel Robert Gibbon Johnson challenged the belief that tomatoes are toxic in a New Jersey court

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Colonel Johnson ate a tomato in public to prove they weren't poisonous

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After this, the benefits of tomato were told and it entered the kitchen

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