Boy am I ever glad they figured that out. I couldn’t even sleep at night worried about it.
I hope to hell none of my tax money was spent on this “study”.
I’m not buying it.
The poor taste is because they are picked green and not allowed to vine ripen. Then they are exposed in factory warehouses to ethylene gas which causes them to turn red. They look ripe but they are not ripe, hence the tastelessness.
I am not buying this article at all. If the tomatoes were picked vine ripened, they would taste fine.
Ya think that might be a factor, too?
Meanwhile, yuck—we’re about to start importing chicken from China!
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/333073-us-china-reach-access-deals-for-beef-poultry
I have solved the tasteless winter tomato dilemma. Martha Stewart has a recipe for oven dried tomatoes, which concentrates the flavor. I keep some in the fridge for use in sandwiches and salads.
http://www.marthastewart.com/339310/oven-dried-tomatoes
Bland Tomato Mystery would be a good name for a grunge band.
This is covered in an interesting book called “The Dorito Effect”.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90135252
Salt Water Irrigation Yields Tasty Tomatoes
I plant Cherokee Purples in the garden and usually just put them in the ground and feed them once or twice with miracle-gro.
This year I prepared the plantings with some lime, epsom salt, rock dust, and cotton seed.
In one hole I put the above and two small fish I pulled out of the river.
Hopefully they’ll turn out better this year than previous years.
Engineered fruit = sh!t.
Since our “captains of agriculture” won’t pay decent wages to pick fruit they engineer rock hard tough fruit that can be machine picked. The end result is faux fruit. Tasteless crap.
I am old. When I was young, strawberries were sweet as candy. Now most of the strawberries in a pack are hard and tasteless. I think they must pick them green as well. Notice how most on the top layer will be kind of sweet and ripe, then as you go down they get hard and tasteless. They throw a few vine ripened ones on top so you go “Yum!” And then the rest suck.
I have a solution. Those complaining should get a 5gal pail and grow a cherry tomato plant. Usually bountiful and very tasty.
I grow tomatoes in a difficult weather area of the US but for the rest of the year we only buy the cluster tomatoes from Costco and use lots of salt on them...