Eggplant seeds (and they have many)聽, which are responsible for the slightly bitter taste of the purple聽berry. The concentration of nicotine itself is about 100 nanograms per gram of eggplant, compared with 2 milligrams of nicotine per cigarette. So, if you鈥檙e willing to eat 20 000 grams of eggplant (around 20 eggplants) for breakfast, you could聽. Of course, eggplants aren鈥檛 alone in containing nicotine:聽聽do too! There is an聽allegation floating around that these "nightshade"聽vegetables (so-called because they can grow in shade), 聽vegetables should be shunned, , because they cause inflammation. There is no scientific evidence for this and avoiding these vegetables unnecessarily restricts diets. It should be mentioned that , is quite distinct from the nightshade vegetables and should be avoided due to its potentially dangerous聽content of atropine. Incidentally, the name "belladonna" means "beautiful woman" in Italian; Roman ladies treated their eyes with the juice of the plant's聽berries to dilate their pupils which supposedly made them聽look more beautiful.
