Sentences with phrase «nightshade crops»

It also clarifies why the paleo diet encourages you to eliminate certain foods from your diet such as legumes and the nightshade crops.

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Control: Destroy crop residue and weeds of the nightshade group to reduce the possibility of adult weevils overwintering.
The new species was discovered as part of a 5 - year, $ 4.36 million study funded by the National Science Foundation to inventory all 1500 or so species in the Solanum genus — a diverse group that includes poisonous plants commonly known as nightshades as well as agriculturally important crops such as tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplants.
The new species belongs to the genus Solanum, which includes some 1,500 species of mostly poisonous plants, including nightshades, but also three economically important, global food crops: tomatoes, potatoes and eggplants — the last of which is most closely related to S. cordicitum, Bohs says.
New World Discovery The cultivated tomato is a member of the nightshade family that includes New World crops such as potato and chili pepper, which spread around the world after Christopher Columbus brought them back to Spain in the 15th century.
Now that you know why I'm so crazy - for - beets, and why I've ditched the glycoalkaloid - laden nightshades, let's talk my obsession with sweet potatoes, the world's seventh most important food crop (Shekhar et al., 2015).
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