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Nicotine in Vegetables
Dr. Norman F.
Childers
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If you spend three hours in a room with minimal tobacco smoke, you get about the
same amount amount of nicotine in 5 oz. of potatoes, 8 1/2 oz. ripe tomatoes, 9
1/2 oz. cauliflower, and 1/3 oz. eggplant. Cooking decreases some of the
nicotine. These results are appearing in medical journals (e.g. The New
England Journal of Medicine) from the experimental laboratories of Dr. Edward
Domino, University of Michigan and colleagues. Extensive research is
needed with the food nightshades to determine the culprits causing the subtle
deteriorating effects on the human body as well as livestock. The
horticulturalists need to study the possibility of "breeding down or
out" the poisonous culprits in the highly popular and addicting food
nightshades.
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