What are the dangers of eating raw eggplant?

When you eat the baby carrots or celery sticks off the veggie tray at parties, you pat yourself on the back for choosing healthy options. For the most part, you can eat vegetables raw and can even obtain the most nutritional value in this manner. read more

You can prevent it by salting the eggplant, wich takes out the moist, where the toxin sits. My personal opinion is to cook it. It tastes a lot better than raw. There is not so much healthvalue in an eggplant, though it contains small amounts of vitamin A and C. read more

Initial characteristics of solanine poisoning are primarily nuerological and gastrointestinal. Common symptoms are vomiting, cramping of the stomach, nausea, headache, dizziness and diarrhea. If you consume raw eggplant and experience any of these symptoms, you should immediately seek medical attention. Cooking eggplant will neutralize solanine. read more

False, raw eggplants are not poisonous. However, the leaves and flowers of the plant can be toxic. Plants in the nightshade family -- which includes eggplants, potatoes, peppers, tomatoes and tomatillos -- contain an alkaloid called solanine, which in very large doses can be poisonous. read more