Tomatoes, like many other vegetables, contain antioxidants that should reduce inflammation and pain. This is in theory.
In fact, if you gorge yourself on tomatoes, your joints can hurt. Rumor has it that this is not limited to the joints, but in general, different parts of the body can get sick.
It is believed that the whole thing is in alpha tomato. This is the kind of chemical that tomatoes use to protect themselves from fungi.
There is a similar chemical in potatoes, solanine. Tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplants are classified as nightshades. They have a lot of different corrosive chemicals in there to protect against mold and bacteria.
It seems that there was even such a story that they once tried to poison some monarch with tomatoes. Because they thought it was such a poisonous super-noisy. But it didn't work out.
Just like potatoes, tomato toxins are found primarily in the green parts of the plant. For the same reason, small tomatoes should be more poisonous. Because they are still very young (green).
There is little toxin in ripe tomatoes, but it is there. If you overeat with tomatoes for a while, then joints can hurt.
Some have cited a 2011 statement from Stanford University scholars. They suggested that tomatoes can hurt joints. Personally, I never dug up this statement. Maybe it's a bike. Or someone misunderstood something.
It seems that so far this statement has not been confirmed or denied. So we will consider tomatoes not harmless in large quantities.
By the way, who told me about Crimean tomatoes and joint pain? What sort was it?
