“Fruits including tomatoes, tomatillos, eggplant/aubergine, bell peppers and chili peppers, all of which are closely related members of the Solanaceae.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanaceae

All the delicious plant based stuff snuffed out in a macrobiotic diet.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 44 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The nightshade family is in like half of what humans even eat that's ridiculous

[–] kindenough@kbin.earth 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well it is a spiritual journey, you don’t need to sin on food.

[–] Kallioapina@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What was the so called spiritual part of abstaining from these, or in in general, on this whole thing? No need to answer if you dont feel like it or whatever, just thank you for your insights.

[–] kindenough@kbin.earth 14 points 2 months ago

From what I learned a higher spiritual state is only achieved through discipline and rigoureus diet, ultimately one could live on a bowl of brown rice a day rule the earth. It is all really 1970s zen.

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It is now, but it wasn't until the Columbian Exchange. Eggplant is the only edible nightshade variety from the eastern continents, the rest being native to South and Central America.

[–] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

To clarify, Native Americans are not humans.

(Joking)

[–] DillyDaily@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe it's half of what you eat, but I've been "allergic" to nightshades my whole life and never felt lacking in options (I have a mast cell disorder, tomatos, potatoes etc cause anaphylaxis, it's not a true allergy, but it functions like one)

I can eat practically anything, it's only like 20 plants I'm allergic to out of like 700 I have available to me. And if I travelled overseas I'd find more stuff I could safely eat there too.

I just can't eat much pre-made, packaged organic convenience foods. Most will contain potato starch, unmarked dextrose, "spices" (if it's not specific in the ingredients list, often I avoid), etc

Even desserts aren't safe because e160c, paprika, is what most companies here used when they swapped out the red dye 40.

So I cook from scratch, but I've never felt limited in my own kitchen because of the ingredients I have. (I am limited at restaurants, I usually order a black coffee and enjoy my dining friend's company)

I also don't live in the America's, so that helps. I can see why they would think nightshades are everything, all the best foods from the Americas start with tomato, or capsicums, and potato is a staple carb. Meanwhile my cultural diet is based on brassicas and oats.

But at the end of the day, Beans and rice is nightshade free, it doesn't take a genius to think of a non-nightshade vegetable to add to the mix to make a unique meal.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

You refuted my point that they're in everything by saying it's easy to avoid nightshades if you: don't eat out, eat premade food, no eating red colored things, don't live in the Americas, don't eat anything ambiguously labeled just spices, and fallback to rice and beans when in doubt? Of course if you're making your own food you can avoid it and still make stuff you like but op was talking about having these restrictions forced on them to the point they were stealing food. That's the ridiculous part they didn't have a choice in the matter and got cut out of all the things you listed with no good way around it