How do they make green tomatoes red?
Just bought some bright red tomatoes at the grocery, since we are out
of the fresh ones. These are hard as can be. Obviously they are green. How do they make em red when they are obviously not ripe? The first one we tried had about as much taste as sawdust. Now have the other two sitting in the window sill, but they are still hard as softballs. |
How do they make green tomatoes red?
How do they make em red when they are obviously not ripe?
Those tomatoes may have been treated with ethylene gas. See http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/BODY_CV206 In addition, they may be a cultivar which tolerates handling and shipping without splitting. Tomatoes bred for this quality may be deficient in others, such as tenderness and taste. Daniel B. Martin |
How do they make green tomatoes red?
As far as I'm concerned, after a summer of growing tomatoes (still got a
few cherrys on the plants which survived the low temps last month) the enemic, pale orange imitation of a tomoatoe purchased in any store (and served, surprisingly, in good restaurants and all sub-shops) is to be avoided. In a few months when I hunger for one of these things again, it will be the grape tomatoes (usually grown in Isreal, as I recall from last year) which I find to have actual taste and substance to them. Paul ================================================== ============================ Paul Mitchell email: phone: (919) 962-9778 office: I have an office, room 14, Phillips Hall ================================================== ============================ |
How do they make green tomatoes red?
I am going to leave the remaining tomato on the windowsill and see
just what happens to it. Still hard as can be. Ridiculous. Thanks for the info on the gas treatment. Some of the things they do to our food is downright ridiculous, no? |
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