Eggplant is nicotine high, treats colon cancer and is used for weight reduction

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Eggplant (English), Baiṅgana (Hindia), Berenjena (Spanish), kattirikkāy (Tamil)

DID YOU KNOW?

Also known as “The King of Vegetables” and much to add to people's disappointment for considering it as a vegetable, eggplant or brinjal is a fruit, specifically a berry. Belonging to the 'Nightshade' or 'Solanaceae' family, brinjal is closely related to the tomato and potato.

It is called “The King of Vegetables” not because of the green crown on its head but owing to the benefits and the nutritional value the fruit provides.

An interesting fact that could pull the smokers to consume Brinjal is that it contains the highest level of nicotine of any vegetable. But you need to consume some 20 to 40 pounds of Brinjal to have the amount of nicotine you’d get smoking one cigarette.

From being called “crazy apple” during Renaissance Italy to being as the "apple of love" in sixteenth-century Spain has been a complete transformation journey for Eggplant.

Eggplant also has a rich poetic history, in Japanese, a proverb says as “the happiest omen for a New Year is first Mount Fuji, then the falcon, and lastly eggplant”.

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