What Are Solanaceous Vegetables? A Detailed Introduction to Common Types and Varieties

Solanaceae is a family of plants under the order Tubiflorae, with about 80 genera and 3,000 species, widely distributed in tropical and temperate regions, mainly native to tropical America. China has 25 genera, about 115 species, distributed in all provinces. Below we take stock of what solanaceous vegetables there are.

Solanaceous vegetables refer to vegetables such as eggplant, mainly including purple eggplant, green eggplant, tomato, chili pepper and potato. These vegetables are all rich in vitamin E, can protect the cardiovascular system and relieve skin aging, and solanaceous vegetables are also consumed in relatively large amounts in our daily lives.

Solanaceae plants are one of the plant groups with the greatest economic value. Many species provide humans with food (such as potato); medicine (such as wolfberry, henbane, groundcherry), vegetables (such as eggplant, tomato, chili pepper), ornamentals (such as petunia, night-blooming jasmine) and industrial raw materials (such as tobacco), etc.