Article: Scientists get under eggplant's skin.

Agricultural Research Service scientists recently made headway unlocking the secrets of Black Magic--a commercial eggplant cultivar representative of U.S. market types. Apparently, when horticulturists named it, they were onto something. Turns out the variety has nearly three times the amount of antioxidant phenolics found in other eggplant cultivars that were studied.

Geneticist John R. Stommel of the ARS Vegetable Laboratory and plant physiologist Bruce D. Whitaker of the Produce Quality and Safety Laboratory, both in Beltsville, Maryland, have teamed up to evaluate the amount of antioxidant phenolic compounds in a wide variety of eggplants. They've found that ...

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