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Big, Red and Tasteless: Why Tomatoes Lost Their Flavor
Live Science ^ | 26JAN17 | Laura Geggel, Senior Writer

Posted on 04/04/2017 4:44:54 PM PDT by vannrox

Ever wonder why most store-bought tomatoes are so tasteless? The answer (surprise, surprise) has to do with revenue: Tomato farmers care about yield, and the genetic variants associated with yield are not associated with tasty tomato flavors, a new study finds.

"Consumers complain that the modern tomato has little flavor. [It's] like a 'water bomb,'" said the study's co-principal investigator Sanwen Huang, the deputy director general at the Agricultural Genome Institute at Shenzhen at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

How can farmers ditch this "water bomb" and reinstate the rich, sweet flavor of the tomato? To find out, Huang and colleagues investigated which genes are associated with tomatoes' taste.

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agriculture; business; flavor; food; tomato
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This is my number #1 issue aside from the criminality of Democrats and their neo-communist agenda. O miss the Burpee "Big Boys" and what a real tomato is supposed to taste like. Indeed, for people who have never tasted what a "real" tomato tastes like, this entire article seems like a waste of time.

But, truly it is an amazing comment on what the USA, and the world has become. A tasteless and picture perfect version of what it used to be. With no flavor, and no taste. Just filled with watery bile.

1 posted on 04/04/2017 4:44:54 PM PDT by vannrox
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The loss of the Jersey Beefsteak tomato is heart breaking. People used to say, correctly, you could eat that tomato on bread and no meat was needed in the sandwich. Absolutely delicious.


2 posted on 04/04/2017 4:48:01 PM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: vannrox

They used to raise a bunch of hydroponic ‘maters in my area.

Big, beautiful, uniformly shaped fruit.

With as much taste as bottled water.


3 posted on 04/04/2017 4:48:10 PM PDT by digger48
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To: vannrox

You have to buy heirloom tomatoes or ones at the farmers market. Same with broccoli, and other vegetables. Strawberries are often dyed red at the supermarket.


4 posted on 04/04/2017 4:48:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: vannrox

Michael Taylor, former Monsanto Honcho. Look at his efforts as Asst. Sec of Agriculture.
I grow Heirlooms only.


5 posted on 04/04/2017 4:49:09 PM PDT by acapesket (all happy now?)
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To: Williams

My favorite sammich during ‘mater season...

White bread
Thick slab of ripe tomater
Miracle Whip
Lays Original Potato Chips
White Bread

Assemble ingredients, mash it down good to crunch up the chips.

Enjoy.

OR...a nice slice of Vidalia or Texas Sweet onion with yellow mustard on bread.


6 posted on 04/04/2017 4:52:20 PM PDT by digger48
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To: vannrox
Then there is the "bright" side of tasteless tomatoes, they fit well in a box...


7 posted on 04/04/2017 4:53:48 PM PDT by C210N
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To: Williams
The loss of the Jersey Beefsteak tomato is heart breaking.

They're not gone, you just have to buy them from farm stands in New Jersey. Only when they're in season, of course.

8 posted on 04/04/2017 4:56:06 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie
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GMO tomatoes, just what we need. /sarc

Heirloom tomatoes are the way to go.


9 posted on 04/04/2017 4:56:53 PM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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To: Williams

I don’t eat tomatoes but I remember my mom raving about these. SHe loved ‘mater sandwiches.


10 posted on 04/04/2017 5:00:29 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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Kumatos, if you can afford them. Weird looking brown tomatoes, but they taste like “real” tomatoes. Amazing that you can buy them in the store and they’re so good.


11 posted on 04/04/2017 5:03:44 PM PDT by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the Video")
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I wouldn’t know, though I live inside Cincy city limits, I still grow my own.


12 posted on 04/04/2017 5:04:49 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Drain the swamp. Build the wall. Open the Pizzagate. I refuse to inhabit any safe space.)
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To: vannrox

Look for a farmers market. You can also try growing them.

http://www.rareseeds.com/store/vegetables/tomatoes/

http://www.seedsavers.org/category/tomato

Burpee, Jung, Territorial Seeds, etc.

http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/wiki/Category:Tomato_Variety_List

Good hunting, good luck, good growing!

(Then distant thunder is no longer distant! Getting off the computer!)


13 posted on 04/04/2017 5:07:40 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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Many really young people do not like tomatoes. I think it is that they have never had delicious home grown tomatoes.


14 posted on 04/04/2017 5:09:19 PM PDT by dforest
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Why is it “lost”?? You’d probably have to grow them yourself, but I would bet that seeds can be had.

http://www.nj.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2016/02/hotter_than_springsteen_tickets_how_to_get_seeds_f.html


15 posted on 04/04/2017 5:10:55 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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To: markomalley

Yep. My local Safeway has a contract with a local hothouse grower who raises heirlooms. It’s what tomatoes were like before there were supermarkets. They are the only tomatoes that I’ll eat.


16 posted on 04/04/2017 5:11:51 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius available at Amazon.)
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To: Hardastarboard

My wife and I agree with you.

Aldi’s sometimes has them at a good price.


17 posted on 04/04/2017 5:12:07 PM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticides, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: vannrox

Last weekend I planted some tomato seeds that my wife’s friend brought back from Italy recently. Hopefully they’re flavorful and juicy. Some of the seeds are of the oblong Roma-type variety and some are the bigger round kind that I’d be tempted to call a beefsteak variety. Time will tell...


18 posted on 04/04/2017 5:13:07 PM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( Wolves don't care what sheep have to say ))))
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To: acapesket
I grow Heirlooms only.

Ditto.
19 posted on 04/04/2017 5:13:41 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: vannrox

Cherokee Purples are flavorful, ugly and highly recommended.


20 posted on 04/04/2017 5:14:37 PM PDT by poindexters brother
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