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Toxic Tomato Leaves?
Harold McGee is a noted food scientist and the author of several books including On Food and Cooking and The Curious Cook .
By Evan Kleiman • • 1 min readHarold McGee is a noted food scientist and the author of several books including On Food and Cooking and The Curious Cook.
Harold says that there is no evidence to back that claim. Instead, tomato leaves contain the alkaloid tomatine, which helps lower LDL cholesterol levels.
