Only a small number are edible. Some people may avoid nightshade vegetables because of their alkaloid and capsaicin content.

The fruit of the forest nightshade isn’t edible, but the team suspected that its food crop relatives might have similar genes at work. Sure enough, in the African eggplant genome they found a ...

In fact, potatoes, which is one of the common nightshade edible vegetable can become toxic if it is consumed with the green spots as they contain toxin solanine. Many herbs and spices—like ...