Raw tomatoes equal to smoke?

Yesterday, a message transmission over the Internet quickly, concern. Reports that scientists have discovered some vegetables, tomatoes and other nicotine vegetables had better not eaten raw. Nanjing food, vegetable experts were of the view that not nervous because vegetables in nicotine is too small, the human body structure not as a threat.

Online news that United States scientists through long-term research and found that people often use vegetables such as tomatoes, Eggplant and potato, cauliflower, etc. contain the number of nicotine. These vegetables if not cooking and eating, you enter the body of the number will more nicotine, the resulting damage would be close to the beneficial effects of passive smoking.

Nanjing Institute of vegetable science week up to Biao said he so far has not heard of vegetables contain nicotine, but some vegetables such as lentils, because the material containing alkali, do not cook and eat so you really have an impact on health. Nanjing Agricultural University, Associate Professor of Yu Zhi-fen told reporters, vegetable or 100 beneficial but no harm, in addition to lentil contains some harmful substances, some vegetables or even cause allergic diseases, caused by metabolic aspects of disorders. Scientific research shows that people often use vegetables do have nicotine content, such as tomatoes, Eggplant and potato, cauliflower, and so on. But scientists found tomatoes of nicotine is minimal, can only be measured in micrograms, rarely to be ignored, so in normal circumstances, edible vegetables does not have an impact on the human body, it has no need to worry about.