purple tomato

Can You Get Purple Tomatoes?

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Can You Get Purple Tomatoes? Blue tomatoes, sometimes referred to as purple tomato, are tomatoes that have been bred to produce high levels of anthocyanins, a class of pigments responsible for the blue and purple colours of many fruits, including blueberries, blackberries and chokeberries. Are purple tomatoes safe to eat? Scientists have expressed genes from

What Did The Original Tomato Look Like?

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What Did The Original Tomato Look Like? First, native people in South America cultivated blueberry-sized wild tomatoes about 7,000 years ago to breed a plant with a cherry-sized fruit. Later, people in Mesoamerica bred this intermediate group further to form the large cultivated tomatoes that we eat today. What was the original tomato? First, native