Most commercial foods contain sugar, but people tend to assume it's only a small amount. Often it isn't!
And besides, sugar is a dangerous toxin and should be completely avoided anyway.
That's without even getting into the tomato rabbit hole - they are a nightshade and like all nightshades they can cause a wide range of health problems, such as muscle pain and tightness, morning stiffness, poor healing, arthritis, insomnia and gall bladder problems.
Nightshades are members of an enormous family of plants called Solanaceae, represent a huge family of plants. The ones that concern us in the Western diet mainly include tomatoes, potatoes (not sweet potatoes or yams), eggplant and peppers—this means all peppers including chili peppers, habenero, cayenne pepper and paprika (not peppercorns). Paprika is a sneaky one, showing up in lots of flavoring mixes and often under “spices” on ingredient labels. Other nightshades include goji berries, ashwagandha (an adaptogenic herb from Ayurvedic medicine), Cape gooseberries (not normal gooseberries), ground cherries and garden huckleberries (not blueberries).
