<p>Why are people with arthritis being told to stop eating potatoes, tomatoes and egg plants?</p><p>Vegetables in the nightshade family have been under scrutiny for decades, but the fad of cutting them out of our diets has seen a recent resurgence.</p><p>Norman and Tegan investigate where all this shade comes from, and whether there's any evidence to support it.</p><p>References:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/deadly-nightshade-botanical-biography#:~:text=In%20times%20of%20the%20Roman,plant%20to%20poison%20their%20enemies">Deadly Nightshade: A Botanical Biography</a></li><li><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40816-021-00291-3">Flavonoids, alkaloids and saponins: are these plant-derived compounds an alternative to the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis? A literature review</a></li><li><a href="https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.2903/j.efsa.2020.6222">Risk assessment of glycoalkaloids in feed and food, in particular in potatoes and potato-derived products</a></li><li><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jcmm.18132">α-Solanine attenuates chondrocyte pyroptosis to improve osteoarthritis via suppressing NF-κB pathway</a></li><li><a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8122721/">Antioxidants in Potatoes: A Functional View on One of the Major Food Crops Worldwide</a></li></ul>