- Avoid tomatoes that are soft or mushy, lacking in color, or have blemishes or growth cracks.
- Good quality tomatoes should have bright, shiny skins and firm flesh.
SELECTION TIPS
STORAGE, RIPENING AND HANDLING:
- Countertop.
- Continues to ripen after harvest.
FUN FACTS:
In 1893, the United States Supreme Court ruled the tomato was a "vegetable" and therefore subject to import taxes. The suit was brought by a consortium of growers who wanted it declared a vegetable to protect U.S. crop development and prices. Fruits, at that time were not subject to import taxes and foreign countries could flood the market with lower priced produce.
Early Spanish explorers found tomatoes in Mexico and brought them back to Spain. Then botanists recognized them as cousins to belladonna and deadly nightshade and pronounced them poisonous.
from aboutproduce.com
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