They were, because small tomatoes resembled the deadly nightshade family. Europeans were suspicious
The tomato. It wasn't until the mid1800's when it was shown it wasn't poison. They had the name of " poisoned apples."
Tomatoes.
tomatoes
Because, the yellow seed had a substance that was unknown
Tomatoes were considered poisonous.
POTATOES. They wouldn't eat them because they thought they were poisonous.
Alfred Cobblestone discovered the pomegranate. He thought it was a tomato, when the people thought they were poisonous, but he ate them and then he realized they weren't tomatoes. So he named them pomegranates.
Alfred Cobblestone discovered the pomegranate. He thought it was a tomato, when the people thought they were poisonous, but he ate them and then he realized they weren't tomatoes. So he named them pomegranates.
Tomatoes are from the same plant family as potatoes and deadly nightshade (hence why they were considered poisonous). Also, the leaves of the tomato plant are poisonous and a skin irritant.
Here's a guess: tomatoes. They were thought to be poisonous. They are in fact a member of the nightshade family of plants.
Thomas Jefferson ate a tomato at a public show to demonstrate that tomatoes were not, in fact, poisonous.
Tomatoes are one of the foods once thought to be poisonous. The relatively high acidity of tomatoes could cause lead to leach out of pewter plates. This may have resulted in some people becoming ill from lead poisoning. Several myths about the supposed toxicity of tomatoes became widely spread in Europe and in some parts of the Americas, even though tomatoes had been cultivated by Aztecs and other American native peoples for hundreds of years with no known ill effects.