Hi All,

Today is Saturday, and we are talking about tomatoes. Yup as my previous post was about Tomato soup, so that thing comes in my mind that why does not make one post about tomato history and facts. So I have started work on that. So let’s start with some interesting facts and history of tomato

1. Tomatoes are the fruit of the tomato plant. They originated in the South American Andes around the region of present-day Peru
2. Because the tomato has seeds and grows from a flowering plant botanically it is classed as a fruit, not a vegetable.
3. In 1887, U.S. tariff legal guidelines imposed an obligation on vegetables, however not on fruits. This supposed the popularity of tomatoes grows to be counted of legal importance. The U.S. Supreme Court dominated in the case of Nix v. Hedden that tomatoes had been to be regarded as vegetables, primarily based on the famous definition that classifies greens by use, the place they are normally served with dinner and not as a dessert. However, the courts did not reclassify the tomato botanically, it is nevertheless a fruit.
4. Tomatoes are the state vegetable of New Jersey. They are the legit state fruit of Ohio and tomato juice is the respectable beverage of Ohio.
5. In cooler climates, tomatoes are typically grown in glasshouses (greenhouses).
6. China is the greatest producer of tomatoes, accounting for one-quarter of the world’s manufacturing in 2009. The United States and India and the 2d and 1/3 easiest producers respectively.
7. Pretty tons all tomato types are purple even though different colorings are viable which include green, yellow, orange, pink, black, brown, white, and purple.
8. There are greater than 7500 tomato types grown around the world. 😲
9. Types of tomatoes encompass cutting (globe) tomatoes used in the processing and for sparkling eating. Beefsteak tomatoes are large, frequently used for sandwiches. Oxheart tomatoes range in dimension and are fashioned like giant strawberries. Plum tomatoes (including pear tomatoes), are generally oblong, and used in tomato sauce and paste. Cherry tomatoes are small round, regularly candy and eaten completely in salads. Campari tomatoes are candy and juicy of small to medium size.
10. Tomatoes are prosperous in lycopene, an antioxidant that is top for the coronary heart and high-quality in opposition to positive cancers. Cooked tomatoes are absolutely higher for you than uncooked ones, as greater really helpful chemical compounds are released. Tomatoes are additionally packed with nutritional vitamins A and C, calcium, potassium.
11. The tomato is eaten in many extraordinary ways, uncooked like a fruit, as an ingredient in many dishes, sauces, salsas, salads, processed into ketchup or tomato soup. Tomato juice is made as a drink and used in cocktails like a Bloody Mary.
12. Tomatoes are very famous in Mediterranean cuisines such as Italian. They are essential ingredients in pizza and pasta sauces.
13. The largest tomato combat in the world occurs every yr in the small Spanish city of Buñol. The competition known as La Tomatina includes some 40,000 human beings throwing 150,000 tomatoes at each other.
14. The Guinness World Record for most tomatoes harvested from a single plant over one yr weighed 522.464 kg (1151.84 lbs) with 32,194 tomatoes harvested between May 2005 and April 2006. The tomato plant was at the Epcot Science project at Walt Disney World Company, Florida, USA.
15. As of 2013, the heaviest tomato according to Guinness World Record weighed 3.51 kg (7 lb 12 oz) and was once grown by G. Graham in 1986, Oklahoma, USA.