Why Tudor England Refused to Eat Tomatoes For 200 Years

21 min•17 april 2026

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The story of how a respected Elizabethan botanist looked at a tomato, applied perfectly logical medical reasoning, and concluded that English people shouldn't eat one, and why it took two hundred years for anyone to prove him wrong.

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Why Tudor England Refused to Eat Tomatoes For 200 Years

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