Tomato leaves non-poisonous?

[Cornflower]

While catching up on some food blogs (the things I have to do as part of my job) I stumbled across an interesting article on the New York Times website: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/di...r=2&ref=dining

Normally I would dismiss the idea that tomato leaves were good to cook with, but McGee's research seems sound. I'm not going to rush right out and make a tomato-leaf sauce tonight, but I am thinking about it for the future.

[tyrupp]

good luck, RIP.

[ddsack]

Very interesting research cited in that article. Nice to know that green tomatoes can help lower LDL. But using leaves in seasoning and as fried green leaves .......... I dunno .............. I'm guess I'm not gourmet minded enough to try it. I do know that my local deer herd thinks highly of tomato vines and leaves.

[dustdevil]

Some things slowly poison you and then you fall off the wheel.

[Worth1]

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Worth

[franzb69]

tomato leaves are slightly poisonous afaik. same with chili pepper leaves. but then again who knows? my people have been cooking with chili pepper leaves for generations. lol. one or two leaves in a pot of soup, just for flavor.

[RinTinTin]

I guess that the old adage still stands:

"Everything in moderation".

[lowlylowlycook]

Not as old but maybe more to the point:

The dose makes the poison.

link

[RinTinTin]

When I was a child, our family bred and raised Afghan hounds. There was a prominent breeder not far from us who routinely fed her show dogs arsenic (to make their coats thicker and shinier). I guess that you need to experiment to figure out dosages that fit somewhere between "beneficial", and "Oops!".