FRUIT AND FACTS
JUNE 25, 2021
Stunning Facts About Tomato
Here are 16 stunning facts about tomato !
- Tomatoes aren’t always red, there are yellow, pink, purple, black and white tomatoes.
- Tomatoes are considered originally came from Peru.
- The largest ever tomato ever recorded was picked in Oklahoma, USA in 1986. It weighed over 3.5 Kg, just like a newborn baby.
- There are around 10.000 varieties of tomatoes worldwide with variety of colors.
- They were first brought to Europe in the mid 1500’s.
- The first tomatoes in Europe may originally have been yellow. They were called “pomo d’oro” in Italian, meaning “golden apple”.
- The scientific name for tomato is Lycopersicon lycopersicum meaning wolf peach.
- Tomato is a fruit. The definition : a fruit is the edible part of the plant containing seeds, a vegetable is stem, leaf or root.
- A festival in Spain is held every summer. People throw 150.000 tomatoes at each other during the La Tomatina festival in Bunol.
- Every year around 150 million of tons of tomatoes are produced. The biggest producer of tomato in the world is China.
- 90% of America’s canned tomatoes are grown in Yolo County, California.
- Wild tomato lives more than two year while cultivated tomato is annual plant, lives for only one year.
- People used to be afraid to eat tomatoes in the past, due to their relation to the belladonna or deadly nightshade plant that is poisonous.
- Tomatoes are important for men’s health because they are the richest source of lycopene which is important for the health of the prostate gland.
- The human body doesn’t digest tomato seeds. They are often found growing in sewage works.
- Tomato seedlings have been grown in space before. 600,000 tomato seeds traveled to the International Space Station and back.
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