The most recent poster wrote "I feel so strange unable to go out to eat, grilling people about what is really in the food." That's actually a really good thing to bring up, IMO, so I wanted to make it into its own post ( Read more... )

I found this group after doing some research about Nightshades, and joined LJ to be able to chat with you all.

Unlike a lot of you (it would seem) I am not allergic to Nightshades, but intolerate of them. I have severe Fibromyalgia, and am also hoping that once I get them all out of my system my pain will go down some.

In addition to Nightshades, I ( Read more... )

I wound up doing a lot of research on this issue, and made kind of an enormous post about it ( Read more... )

Genetically modified soy, contains Petunia, which is a nightshade. :P  I buy only Organic Tofu that is labeled non-GMO, but still.
Also, just about any crop can be made to contain petunia, corn, or soy. Its all in how they modify the original seed. Yikes!

UPDATE: Here's what I found... its the Round-up Ready Soya (page updated Jan 9, 2010).  However ( Read more... )

This recipe is in 3 parts - the main recipe, the sauce, and the homemade pasta.  However, you could instead, just buy Tinkyada's jumbo shells and stuff that instead. It just won't be Agnolotti, which is a rectangular shaped, stuffed pasta, similiar to the Ravioli. If making your own pasta, scroll down to the bottom of the page, and do the Pasta ( Read more... )

DEAR LJ EDIT: I HAVE DELETED THE Comment with a link to a crap site but could NOT click Spam because I didn't view the thread first. It allowed me to delete the comment (by following the "delete the comment" link from within my email) but without the proper form from another page, but when I clicked on view thread, it then gave me the option to ( Read more... )

In response to a recent comment to an old post, I joked about putting something on my "statistical risk assessment list", and I wonder if other people have something in a similar order ( Read more... )

I suspect there are more reasons why people avoid nightshades than just allergies and arthritis. I don't know what they are. Are there other categories we should take into account? All I really know about are actual allergic reactions (e.g. hives, shock, asthma -- things either itchy or frightening).

Did you know that some of the most common allergens from nightshades are, in fact, fully identified? There is an official international list of allergens -- here's what it has for the order Solanales. At the time of posting, that list includes two bell pepper allergens, three from tomatoes, and four from potatoes. You can click on their names ( Read more... )

Over the past few months I had gotten really sick, as if I had eaten something I shouldn't, but couldn't figure out why. At least one dumb thing I ate was goji berries in a fruit smoothie ( Read more... )