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Eggplant
Eggplant is a vegetable belonging to the nightshade family. It is closely related to tobacco. Eggplant is often considered to be a very homey vegetable, and is used in dishes such as ratatouille and eggplant Parmesan.
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You will want to salt the slices of eggplant and draw out the liquid and bitterness. A light coating of olive oil and a touch of salt and paper will help the flavor. I like to add some garlic powder for an additional kick.
What is eggplant when translated from English to Italian?
Melanzane alla Parmigiana is an Italian equivalent of 'Eggplant Parmesan'. The phrase is pronounced 'meh-lahn-ZAH-nay AHL-lah pahr-mee-JYAH-nah'. The feminine gender noun 'melanzane' means 'eggplants'. Its definite article is 'le' ['the']. The word 'alla' is formed from the preposition 'a' and the feminine definite article 'la', to mean 'to the'. The feminine adjective 'Parmigiana' refers to the dish being cooked with Parmesan cheese.
What is biblical meaning of eggplant?
A plant (Solanum Melongena), of East Indian origin, allied to the tomato, and bearing a large, smooth, edible fruit, shaped somewhat like an egg; mad-apple.
How long do eggplant trees live?
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How much eggplant is too much to eat?
I have cooked overripe eggplant many times, and have suffered no ill effects whatsoever. The flavor does not seem to suffer significantly either.
R.B. of Bozeman
Is eggplant found in the thistle family?
Eggplant is found in the Solanacea family (nightshade) along with tomatoes, peppers, tobacco and petunias.
Thistles are in the Asteraceae family (sunflower) along with lettuce and artichokes.
List all the vitamins of the eggplant?
Eggplant is called "Be-Gun" in Bengali (an Indian Language). "Gun" means properties or value and "Be" means void or absent. So "Be-Gun" stands for some thing that has no value.
As far as I know Eggplant has almost none nutritional value. But it might be because of my Bengali background :)
Hey..maybe the first guy who gave the answer hates eggplant.
Health BenefitsIn addition to featuring a host of vitamins and minerals, eggplant also contains important phytonutrients, many which have antioxidant activity. Phytonutrients contained in eggplant include phenolic compounds, such caffeic and chlorogenic acid, and flavonoids, such as nasunin.
Brain Food
Research on eggplant has focused on an anthocyanin phytonutrient found in eggplant skin called nasunin. Nasunin is a potent antioxidant and free radical scavenger that has been shown to protect cell membranes from damage. In animal studies, nasunin has been found to protect the lipids (fats) in brain cell membranes. Cell membranes are almost entirely composed of lipids and are responsible for protecting the cell from free radicals, letting nutrients in and wastes out, and receiving instructions from messenger molecules that tell the cell which activities it should perform.
Rich in Phenolic Antioxidant Compounds
Researchers at the US Agricultural Service in Beltsville, Maryland, have found that eggplants are rich sources of phenolic compounds that function as antioxidants. Plants form such compounds to protect themselves against oxidative stress from exposure to the elements, as well as from infection by bacteria and fungi.
The good news concerning eggplant is that the predominant phenolic compound found in all varieties tested is chlorogenic acid, which is one of the most potent free radical scavengers found in plant tissues. Benefits attributed to chlorogenic acid include antimutagenic (anti-cancer), antimicrobial, anti-LDL (bad cholesterol) and antiviral activities.
ARS researchers studied seven eggplant cultivars grown commercially in the U.S. and a diverse collection of exotic and wild eggplants from other counties. In addition to chlorogenic acid, they found 13 other phenolic acids present at significantly varying levels in the commercial cultivars, although chlorogenic acid was the predominant phenolic compound in all of them. Black Magic-a commercial eggplant cultivar representative of U.S. market types-was found to have nearly three times the amount of antioxidant phenolics as the other eggplant cultivars that were studied. In addition to their nutritive potential, the phenolic acids in eggplant are responsible for some eggplants' bitter taste and the browing that results when their flesh is cut. An enzyme called polyphenol oxidase triggers a phenolic reaction that produces brown pigments. Scientists have begun work on developing eggplant cultivars with an optimal balance of phenolics to ensure both optimal nutritional value and pleasing taste.
Cardiovascular Health and Free Radical Protection
When laboratory animals with high cholesterol were given eggplant juice, their blood cholesterol, the cholesterol in their artery walls and the cholesterol in their aortas (the aorta is the artery that returns blood from the heart back into circulation into the body) was significantly reduced, while the walls of their blood vessels relaxed, improving blood flow. These positive effects were likely due not only to nasunin but also to several other terpene phytonutrients in eggplant.
Nasunin is not only a potent free-radical scavenger, but is also an iron chelator. Although iron is an essential nutrient and is necessary for oxygen transport, normal immune function and collagen synthesis, too much iron is not a good thing. Excess iron increases free radical production and is associated with an increased risk of heart disease and cancer. Menstruating women, who lose iron every month in their menstrual flow, are unlikely to be at risk, but in postmenopausal women and men, iron, which is not easily excreted, can accumulate. By chelating iron, nasunin lessens free radical formation with numerous beneficial results, including protecting blood cholesterol (which is also a type of lipid or fat) from peroxidation; preventing cellular damage that can promote cancer; and lessening free radical damage in joints, which is a primary factor in rheumatoid arthritis.
How do you get eggplant color?
If you want to get an eggplant color with food coloring, just mix drops of blue and red together to get a sort of purple-ish color. Add more blue or red to get your desired eggplant shade. If you want a green eggplant color, then just mix yellow and blue together, with more yellow since green eggplants aren't super green.
How do you make grilled eggplant in harvest moon tree of tranquility?
First you buy the eggplant seeds from souffle farm (sorry i dont know what season im working on that) and plant it then you can buy matches from the general store and then go to a fire pit on one of the beaches and use the matches and then bring out the eggplant and grill it trust me it should work :-) Hope this helped
Should you eat eggplant peeling?
Not when it is young, brcause the seeds are not fully grown, but if the plant is split open, yes.
Do you have to peel eggplant before you cook it?
Nope, you don't have to. I actually prefer not to, because it adds color to the plate and it keeps texture. It will keep the plant in more edible pieces (if you skin it it's more likely to get mushy). If it's a really big plant be careful how you cook it because the skin can get very tough and stick in your throat.
-Dancer4Life-
Are eggplant leaves poisonous?
Eggplants, like tomatoes, peppers, and potatoes are members of the nightshade family.
All eggplants contain certain amounts of the toxin Solanine but younger fruit has higher concentrations. Reactions to this poison are usually gastrointestinal and range from mild nausea to severe and convulsive vomiting and diarrhea. Other symptoms have been reported such as burning of the throat, cardiac dysrhythmia, headache and dizziness. Hallucinations, loss of sensation, paralysis, fever, jaundice, dilated pupils and hypothermia have been reported in more severe cases. In large quantities, solanine poisoning can cause death. One study suggests that doses of 2 to 5 mg per kilogram of body weight can cause toxic symptoms, and doses of 3 to 6 mg per kilogram of body weight can be fatal. Symptoms usually occur 8 to 12 hours after ingestion, but may occur as rapidly as 30 minutes after eating high-solanine foods.
The lowest dose to cause symptoms of nausea is about 25 mg solanine for adults, a life-threatening dose for a regular-weight adult ranges about 400 mg solanine.
The first post to this answer was completely erroneous as it stated that heat neutralises Solanine. This was dangerously misleading and I have deleted it. Heat has absolutely no effect on solanine. The best way to avoid poisoning is to 1)choose only very ripe eggplants/aubergines, 2)soak for a couple of hours in very salty warm water, rinse and soak again in tap water, 3)cook until the eggplant is very well-done (this has nothing to do with exposure to heat but rather to the breakdown in fibers and leeching out of poison this causes). Another precaution is to peel the skin.
Solanine is also present in large quantities in potatoes which appear green below the skin. Some people are fine with peeling away this green bit but the safest thing is to not use them at all. It has been reported that deep frying causes solanine to leech out of the food and into the oil. So if you insist on eating green potatoes, frying is perhaps the best option. Solanine is also present in tomatoes but recordings of reactions are very limited.
Some interesting Solanine trivia...
Sir Walter Raleigh brought potatoes to Ireland and gave a potato plant to Queen Elizabeth I as a present. However the cooks at the royal banquet, unfamiliar with the plant, threw out the edible tubers and cooked the stems and leaves which contain high volumes of Solanine. Everyone fell deathly ill, prompting potatoes to be banned from the court. It would be two centuries before Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, gave potatoes to the poor who (with the help of Prussian soldiers) agreed to eat them.
You would suffer from solanine toxicity which could cause a range of symptoms such as nausea, convulsive vomiting and diarrhea, and in the extreme, death.
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How do you tell if an eggplant is male or female?
Eggplants don't have separate male and female plants. Neither do they have separate male and female flowers. They are self-pollinating, meaning each flower has male and female parts and does not need another flower in order to produce fruit.
The following link has a pic showing the difference between male and female fruit. I have grown egg plant since I was a kid 35+ years and have known the difference. the Male fruit have less seed or smaller seed and are less bitter. The female fruit has a longer marking on the end of the flower blossom end of the fruit away from the stem. The male fruit has a smaller rounded spot. Some are difficult to distinguish. If you see ones at the market with a noticable longer slit mark where the flower blossom was attached leave that fruit on the shelf. The plants produce both male and female fruit, both fruit are fine to eat, just that the male are usually less bitter. http://wintersong.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/choosing-the-best-eggplant-boy-or-girl/
What should you do with an overripe eggplant?
Roasted eggplant never tastes bad, especially when you serve it with a lot of tomato sauce. Go to finecooking.com and look for "oven roasted eggplant" for recipes. Use plenty of salt.
How many one plant eggplant yield?
It depends on the type of pepper plant. i have had many and i mostly get a dozen off of each. Notice though that they arent all perfect looking like storebought and differ in size, color, etc.
Is it ok to eat the brown on the inside of eggplant?
You should throw it away and try grow a new one. It obviously isn't healthy.
