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Quit smoking: 5 products containing nicotine
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
In 10 kg of eggplant contains nicotine, as in a cigarette "Belomorkanal."
Do you smoke, lead a healthy lifestyle and even despise people with addictions? In vain! Nicotine will still find a path to your body.
It turns out that there are vegetables popular, recognized as super-useful and loved by millions of people, which, however, contain nicotine.
Vegetables - cigarettes
Scientists and physicians of the University of Michigan in 1993 conducted a global study on "The content of nicotine in vegetables." It is not known what triggered the unusual work, but the fact is that the researchers found that nicotine is present in many plants consumed by man for food.
As it turned out, in ordinary potatoes, tomatoes and aubergines (all plants of the family Solanaceaeuch) nicotine was contained in quite measurable amounts. So:
Eggplant
According to the study, 10 grams of aubergines contain 1 microgram (microgram) of nicotine - about the same amount a person receives from three hours of passive smoking. Cigarettes usually contain 1 mg (milligram) of nicotine, which means that a person will have to eat 10 kg of aubergines to reach this figure. Agree, pretty much you need to eat eggplant to achieve the effect of one cigarette!
Cauliflower
Cauliflower (who would have thought) has 3.8 ng / g nicotine in 263.4 g of product. This is equivalent to staying in a room with a smoker for three hours. Moreover, subsequent scientific research has even increased the amount of nicotine in cauliflower - up to 16.8 ng / g.
Potatoes
The potato also contains nicotine, and most of all - in the pulp. Potatoes almost champion: 1 kg. Is 15.3 ng / g nicotine, and a person needs to eat just 65.4 grams before reaching the effect of passive smoking.
Potato peel
In the potato peel, meanwhile, much less nicotine, scientists have established: only 4.8 ng / g nicotine, that is, a person will have to eat 208 grams of potato peelings to get the effect of passive smoking one cigarette.
Green tomatoes
And here is the true winner of the nicotine competition - green tomatoes. This vegetable has the highest level of nicotine - 42.8 ng / g Eating just 23.4 grams of tomatoes, you already feel the effect of passive smoking.
Red tomatoes
In 1993, a study showed that in ripe red tomatoes nicotine is significantly less - 4.1 ng / g per kilogram of tomatoes. The effect of passive smoking appears after eating 244 grams of tomatoes.
Tomato puree
And, finally, puree from fresh tomatoes showed a record amount of the drug - 52 ng / g nicotine. The mashed purée in 19.2 g is equal to the passive smoking of one cigarette.