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Interesting. The article didn't try (as far as I saw) to say anything about the flavor of nighthade, which would have been interesting (as a Northern European,
by unwind 11y ago
Interesting.
The article didn't try (as far as I saw) to say anything about the flavor of nighthade, which would have been interesting (as a Northern European, I have no idea if I can source this locally).
The Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_nightshade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_nightshade) said:
The leaves also contain high levels of vitamin A, B, and C, and phenolics and alkaloids, including cocaine, quinine, nicotine, and morphine
which was also interesting. I wonder if those levels are high enough to make the plant controversial, didn't do any further research.
- kedean 11y agoThe article does mention a few times that all of the vegetables in question are dark leafy greens, so they are extremely bitter. That's why so much effort is being put into recipe research, they aren't particularly palatable veggies on their own.
- beat 11y agoPalatable is also a cultural bias. You like familiar flavors and dislike unfamiliar flavors, generally. (I sometimes sum this up as "Asians ferment soybeans and Europeans think it's disgusting. Europeans ferment milk and Asians think it's disgusting.") One big problem I've noticed is that American tastes are so strongly driven by junk food and highly processed factory products that actual fresh vegetables taste alien and weird.