Current location - Recipe Complete Network - Dinner recipes - What is the scientific name of eggplant?
What is the scientific name of eggplant?

Eggplant, also called "ginseng fruit", is a vegetable, fruit and ornamental herb of the Solanaceae family. This kind of ginseng fruit was once called fragrant eggplant, cantaloupe eggplant, fragrant mango, golden ginseng fruit, longevity fruit, purple fragrant eggplant, sweet eggplant, cantaloupe pear, fragrant pear, etc. in my country. From the perspective of plant taxonomy, it is more accurate to call it eggplant, melon eggplant or fragrant eggplant. However, it is also called ginseng fruit because it does have certain nutritional and health care effects, as well as the effects of curing diseases and prolonging life.