I know they exist, but I have yet to find the names of any. Please comment if you know the names! 🙂   If you are researching, you’re looking for peppers that aren’t in the Solanaceae family.

Summer squash Zucchini  

Sweet potatoes – baked whole or as fries Fried plantains – substitute for French fries Turnips Jerusalem artichokes

gooseberries (cape gooseberries are nightshades) peppercorns yam sweet potato garlic onion turmeric ginger chive cumin basil horseradish wasabi clove mustard seed galangal     Guinea pepper sansho Tasmanian mountain pepper   http://noarthritis.com/cookbook.htm

from http://www.frontiercoop.com/prodlist.php?ct=frgourmet Sarah P in her post (http://vegetalion.blogspot.ca/2010/11/how-to-replace-nightshades-part-2.html) says that high-quality peppercorns like the ones below will often add flavour that can replace hot peppers:   Cubeb – Piper cubeba Also called tailed pepper due to the attached fruit stem, our organic cubeb pepper is grown in Indonesia and offers a   Read More ...