Daily Archives: August 4, 2015


Nightshades — Friend or Foe?

Believe it or not, “nightshades” are the mainstay of many cultural diets around the world including the Mediterranean diet.  The nightshade family or Solanaceae (its botanical name) include many non-edible flowering plants, which are actually considered toxic or poisonous with the best-known being belladonna, or “deadly nightshade,” traditionally valued for its use as a poison (in the play Macbeth, for […]