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Nightshade Vegetables: Growing Practices and Food Uses

Nightshade Vegetables: Growing Practices and Food Uses

Jose Ciju, Roby

Paperback

Series: All about Vegetables

Diet & NutritionBotany & HorticultureEdible Plants

ISBN10: 1081437170
ISBN13: 9781081437176
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 19 2019
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This is a book of 200-pages about 'Nightshade Vegetables.' Growing practices, nutritional information and food uses of popular nightshade vegetables viz. potatoes, eggplants, tomatoes, tomatillos, chile peppers (chili peppers, bell peppers and jalapeno peppers are explained in detail in this book. The word nightshade is often used in herbal medicines to refer a poisonous species of plant, but a highly regarded medicinal plant, belonging to the plant family Solanaceae. This plant is often called 'deadly nightshade' because of its toxic properties. Common name of this medicinal plant is 'belladonna.' Nightshade family is mainly known for its toxic and poisonous member plants and many of them are medicinal plants. However, the nightshade family i.e. Solanaceae family includes some of the most popular and economically important vegetable plants such as potatoes, tomatoes, tomatillos, brinjals or eggplants, chile peppers, bell peppers and jalapeno peppers also. These vegetables are very popular among consumers and are used by the whole world on daily basis. These vegetables are often referred as 'nightshade vegetables' or 'Solanaceous vegetables.' In other words, 'Nightshade Vegetables' are a group of vegetables belonging to the plant family Solanaceae.

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