Are tomatoes peaty?
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They are technically fruit, but super versatile and you can get them year round even in colder countries in all forms from fresh to canned to pureed.
They pair excellently with natures antibacterials: onions, garlic and a plethora of herbs. Can also be combined with milk to get a creamy tomato sauce.
Easy to cook just cook long enough for the acidity to go away. Also easy to digest, can prepare a large batch of tomato soup as a filling meal.
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@pittybitty The most damaging parts are the peel and the slimy bits around the seeds. I personally don't avoid them as a rule.
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I see them as a neutral food objectively and up to personal factors. Personally tomato often gives me a histamine reaction (slight swelling and itchiness at my fingers), but I don't strictly avoid them either.
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they are a good source of vitamin e, not many other sources that aren't pufa-laden (cranberry juice and red/yellow bell peppers are the other sources that come to mind).
if you stick to a high quality organic tomato puree or paste you will be avoiding the seeds, you can of course make and strain your own using whichever choice of tomato you prefer but it's easy enough to find high quality versions of this product off the shelf.
the skin and seeds are the most likely parts of the tomato to give you issues, so if you can avoid those you will probably do fine with it. on the other board it seemed many people outright claimed all nightshades (esp tomato) were "poison" but in terms of what peat said, going by memory he implicated the seeds in tomatoes as being potentially serotonergic for people who are susceptible and the skins of nightshades potentially being a problem for some as well due to the cellulose iirc.
i personally did fantastic with red, yellow, and orange bell peppers and used those instead of tomatoes. easy enough to remove all the seeds from them as well.
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i think they are serotonergic. cooking them seems to reduce this. Fresh salsas upset my digestion, cooked or can salsas do not.
