https://kvalifood.com/tags/tomato/ Recent content in Tomato on Kvalifood Hugo en-us Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://kvalifood.com/wiki/tomatoes/ Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://kvalifood.com/wiki/tomatoes/ <h1 id="tomatoes-peppers-and-eggplant">Tomatoes, Peppers, and Eggplant</h1> <img src="https://kvalifood.com/wiki/tomatoes/tomatoes_hu_20e991286ddb44a1.webp" alt="" loading="lazy"> <p>The nightshade family includes both deadly poisons (nightshade, tobacco) and some of the kitchen&rsquo;s most important ingredients. Tomatoes, sweet peppers, and eggplants are all nightshade fruits — botanically berries — that took many generations of breeding to reduce their defensive alkaloids to safe levels. Each has unique chemistry that defines how it should be cooked.</p> <h2 id="tomatoes">Tomatoes</h2> <p>Small, bitter berries on west coast South American desert bushes, domesticated in Mexico (from the Aztec <em>tomatl</em>, &ldquo;plump fruit&rdquo;). European suspicion of the nightshade resemblance lasted into the 19th century. Now the second most popular vegetable in America after the potato.</p>