In a message dated 7/14/99 3:07:48 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [log in to unmask]
writes:

>
>  <<  If my memory of American history serves,
>   early Europeans who came to America considered the wild tomato they found
> to
>   be poison; it took a period of farming for the tomato to become edible. >>
>  The tomato didn't change-the people were all wrong when they feared
poisons!
>
>

True. But if man didn't eat them throughout history, our bodies aren't used
to them.
I think that's the whole point of neolithic foods.  I'm not convinced that
man didn't eat
them at all.  But someone had to have gotten the info that the nightshade
family
of plants was poisonous.  It's just a question of how far back it was.

Anna