Tomatoes Were Considered Sinful – Until the Salem Tomato Trial of 1820 (2019)

> By the late 1700s that had radically changed — people feared to eat tomatoes as the fruit had gained a reputation as being poisonous. The unusual culprit was actually tableware. It turned out the pewter plates of the wealthy contained significantly high lead content. The acid in tomatoes brought out this poison and people succumbed.

I'm always amazed at how wide spread the use of lead in food and water was considering knowledge of lead poisoning was known as far back as 200 BC.

I remember my grandmother telling me that when she was a kid in Poland (circa 192x), Jews wouldn’t eat tomatoes because they thought they were full of blood.

It’s crazy that 200 years ago, the main ingredient to many national cuisines (like Italy’s), wasn’t considered edible

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