Should I avoid eating eggplant?

Question

Should I avoid eating eggplant?

20 pounds of eggplant=the amount of nicotine in one cigarette. If each eggplant weighs about 1 pound and a person has half an eggplant a day, thats 14 eggplants a month and equal to almost 12 cigarettes year.

Answer 1

No, you shouldn't avoid eggplant becouse of this.  I wouldn't eat half an eggplant a day because that isn't enough variety in your diet.  Eggplant has heart health benefits though and eating it once or twice a week would not put enough nicotine in your body to negate those benefits.  So, eat up!

Answer 2

If you like them, eat them.

You will smoke more than 12 cigarettesper year in 2nd hand smoke anyway, plus all of the exhaust fumes etc.

Answer 3

Nicotinic acid, which is what is in eggplant, is different than nicotine.

Go ahead and eat eggplant. Yum!

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.ht...

Answer 4

There is a difference in nicotine going to your lungs and a vegetable going to your stomach and through your digestive system. There are many pathways and filters that food takes to be broken down in your body.

Eggplant is a natural, healthy food.

Answer 5

Where did you get this information?????  Who eats that much eggplant anyway????

Answer 6

I love eggplant, please send me proof...bd

Answer 7

The nicotine in cigarettes really doesnt harm you much... just all the other chemicals and carcinogens going into your lungs. Eggplant is good for you. I like eggplant.

Answer 8

20# of eggplant = 1 nicotine in one cigarette

14 eggplants @ 1# each =14# eggplant which is less than the nicotine in one cigarette and not enough in one month to get you addicted to eggplant.

It is the nicotine in cigarettes that makes them addictive it is the tar in the smoke that causes harm to the body.

Answer 9

N0

Answer 10

You inhale more bad stuff just from the air you're breathing than you'd ever get from eating eggplant.  Eggplant is good, no need to avoid it.  .  

Answer 11

12 ciggarettes a year wont do anything to you

maybe like 1200

Answer 12

no they are healthy and very yummy your immune system would very much need it

Answer 13

YOU CANT BE SERIOUS, I GUESS SO