Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio.

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, my name is Robert Lam.

And I'm Joe McCormick and we're back with part two of our talk about tomatoes.

You know, there was a question last time that we explored at some length, which is, this

question you've had for a while, Robert, I think based on reading a plackered at a botanical

garden, which is, did the people of the past few hundred years regard tomatoes as poisonous?

Sometimes there's this generalization made that, you know, it used to be that everybody

thought tomatoes were poison, but now we figured out that's not true.

Now, of course, tomatoes are not poisonous, but it's also the historical characterization

is a little more complicated than that, right?

Yeah, again, it kind of depends on what part of the world you're looking at, what, say,

your which European nation and during what period of the tomatoes rise to power as a global

food source.

But I came across a great article that is by the same author as the author of a book that

we talked about in the last episode, a book about tomatoes.

After F Smith, Smith is also the author of an article that was published in 1991 in the

journal Pharmacy and History called Tomato Pills Will Cure All Your Ills.

And this is a fantastic article about, you know, tomato pills for your jaundice and your

diarrhea.

It's a wild ride and I can't wait to get into it.

Well, let's definitely get into it.

But first, just a reminder, this is part two.

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