• Eggplant as a vegetable

     

     

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    It is a nightshade class of vegetable.

    What is nightshade vegetable?

    Reference 1 – Webmed

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    So why do people avoid them?

    Remember how nightshades contain small amounts of alkaloids? Alkaloids can be dangerous in large doses. In fact, there are many other plants in the nightshade family that are poisonous to humans (like, ahem, tobacco).

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  • Good Ol’ America

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  • Malabar Spinach Gardening and Recipes

    Poi (in Odia) is also known as Basella alba is usually referred to as the “spinach” equivalent of a certain country in English, even though it is not related to the true spinach (Spinacia oleracea). Examples include “Malabar spinach”, “Ceylon spinach”, “Indian spinach”, “Surinam spinach”, “Chinese spinach”, or “Vietnamese spinach”.

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    S.N. Ray

    Basics Home gardening is an intoxicating hobby. What kind of garden, flower or vegetable or any mix of these, one wants to accomplish is purely a personal choice. In 1973 as an early immigrant in America we had a Poi (Also known as Malabar Spinach; Basella alba L., Green vines; Basella rubra L, Red vines) in the kitchen of our apartment in Albany, upstate New York. Our newest small backyard patch garden supplies us with a partial dish of something year around plus the comfort of our childhood