Is the Tomato Poisonous?

First known european reference to tomatoes comes in 15 forty four from italian herbalist a pito, andre a mathioli. He wrote of the mala aria, the golden apples, which he described as ripening from green to yellow. The tomato was purely ornamental, considering new world foods in seventeenth century berlin. It is often held up as one aspect of the poisonous reputation the tomatoes gathered in european society. But at the same time, mattheole discussed how tomatoes were cooked and eaten much in the same way as egg plants,. Only tht egg plants came from asia a and thend.