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Recent Examples on the Web Tomatoes, members of the nightshade family, contain a toxin called solanine, which exists in higher concentrations in unripe tomatoes, as well as the stems and leaves. — Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2022 White hydrangeas were blooming, and the cherry, apple and plum trees were laden with unripe fruit. — New York Times, 18 July 2022 If an unripe berry is in the way, the robot repositions for a better angle. — Sam Deanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022 Coconut water is harvested from unripe coconuts that are around six to seven months old, according to Healthline. — Daryl Perry, USA TODAY, 26 July 2022 The secret to its satisfying crunch are very young, almost unripe mangoes, either from Thailand or India. — New York Times, 18 July 2022 Later, a handful of blackberries is a handful of ripe/unripe/over-ripe/sweet/acid, etc., etc., blackberries. — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022 Recipes for this method of turning unripe tomatoes into a culinary confection appear in late 19th-century community cookbooks from Ohio as well as Jewish immigrant cookbooks. — Casey Barber, CNN, 18 May 2022 The compound in the skin that can make vitamin D is known as 7-DHC, or provitamin D3, and it's also found in tomato plant leaves and unripe green fruit. — Katie Hunt, CNN, 23 May 2022 See More

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