Potatoes- the common potato sources include baked,
mashed, scalloped, chips, fries, knishes, pierogies, plus
potato water in breads, biscuits, matzo, soups and
stews and vodka.  Beware that potato is also included
in these ingredients: hydrolyzed vegetable protein,
modified vegetable protein (MVP), or modified food
starch hidden in packaged meats, cold cuts and
seafoods and other processed foods.  Sweet potatoes
are O.K. (a different family).

Tomatoes  and their sauces (like barbecue and brown
sauces), seasonings, condiments like ketchup and
steak sauce, prepared meats (like meatloaf), baked
beans, gravies, and salad dressings containing them.

Peppers  include red, green, orange, yellow, jalapeno,
chili, cayenne, curry, pimentos, and paprika.  These are
hidden in salads, cold cuts, pastas, sausage and deli
meats, olives, tabasco, Worcestershire, steak sauce,
coloring on nuts and fish, seasoning mixes, crackers,
dips and spreads; black and white pepper are O.K.

"Spices" If the word "spices" or "natural flavorings"
appear in the ingredients list, I cannot have it.  These
are hidden sources and nearly always in commercial
salad dressings, mayonnaise, mustard, condiments,
sauces, prepared (frozen) entrees, and soups; they
could contain paprika, crushed red pepper, ground red
pepper, cayenne, chili, curry; All other specified spices
are O.K. (like black pepper (again not in the same
family), garlic, ginger, basil, rosemary and more).

Also avoid eggplant and tobacco, as well as soy
products, since Monsanto is genetically modifying 80%
of the soy with the petunia gene (a nightshade).

What's Left?

Flaxseed & olive oils, vegetables, including sweet
potatoes (a different botanical family) and many other
spices like black pepper (again not in the same family),
garlic, ginger, basil, rosemary and more.   All fresh
unprocessed meats, fowl and seafoods, wines and
fruits, nuts, beans, cheeses, grains and herbs are not in
the "nightshade family".


*Rogers, Sherry A., M.D.,  "Pain Free in 6 weeks" pg. 33, 284 -  Sarasota, FL, © 2001
Nightshades Food List