what foods are in the nightshade group?
Nightshade vegetables and fruit. The most famous food members of the nightshade family include potatoes (Solanum tuberosum), tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum), many species of sweet and hot peppers (all species of Capsicum, including Capsicum annum), and eggplant (Solanum melongena).
Our nightshade foods are all very good sources of fiber, and all of our nightshade foods are ranked sources of nine or more nutrients. Alkaloids in Nightshade Foods Alkaloids are a chemically related group of substances found in a variety of foods, including cocoa, coffee, tea, black pepper, and honey (depending on the types of flowers found in the bees' foraging zone).