Green tomatoes have about 1/2 the nicotine per serving as eggplant; eggplant has about 1/20th the nicotine per serving as tobacco.
As tomatoes ripen, they lose nicotine. A fully red ripe tomato has almost no nicotine.
Green tomatoes are less common, harder to find, more expensive, and more variable in character than eggplants. Further, green tomatoes lack some of the unique nutrients of eggplant, like nasunin which chelates excess copper and iron from the brain. On balance, green tomatoes have their own unique arsenal of nutrients, like lithium, vitamin C, and lycopene to name a few.
Until now because of this mixture of factors, I have elected to juice eggplants for daily treatment of my Parkinson's.
But then it happened - a neighbor, Jae, decided to plant a massive crop of green heirlooms.
So I was generously provided a shopping bag full of gemstone grade specimens, and maybe more as nature provides.
So here was the experience of juicing green tomatoes:
1) Tomatoes washed and cut to fit down the juicer throat (Breville Juice Fountain Elite):
Result: Taste was excellent, notes of lemon, Symptom relief was tangible with 8 oz glass full.
