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A new tomato that is as sweet as a peach..hmmm...
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Posted by ontheteam 5a (My Page) on Mon, Nov 23, 09 at 10:34
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A revolutionary new tomato that tastes as sweet as a peach hits the shelves tomorrow in a push to encourage children eat more healthily.
The Sugardrop is the sweetest tomato ever created and is a natural hybrid of two different varieties of the fruit.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1230187/New-Sugardrop-tomato-sweeter-peach.html#ixzz0XhHvnGTn
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1230187/New-Sugardrop-tomato-sweeter-peach.html |
Here is a link that might be useful: New Tomato from England
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RE: A new tomato that is as sweet as a peach..hmmm...
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hmmm...I don't think I'll be interested. If I wanted a peach, I'd GET a peach. When I want a tomato, I want it to taste like a flippin tomato. What a crock of horse poo- "gee, if it doesn't taste good, let's genetically alter it so it tastes more like one of these things instead." It's one thing to put sugar in your tomato soup, but to completely change it to taste like something OTHER than a tomato...
Totally no offense to the OP, but the idea is ludicrous, IMO. It would seem easier to just feed the kid a peach or a nectarine. |
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| Funny you would say that mmq, they just mutated a nectarine to taste like a tomato! |
Here is a link that might be useful: just eat it!
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| I hear ya ..and I had to read it 2x..it's not a tomato that tastes like a peach..it has a sweetness AS SWEET as one "The Sugardrop growers have managed to achieve sugar levels - or the technical term of brix levels - of nine to 13 brix. A standard peach has a nine brix level so each of the new tomatoes are guaranteed to be at least as sweet as the fruit. ..The way I read it is it will taste like a VERY sweet tomato. Cest la vie.. I love ''maters I am game to give this a whirl ... |
RE: A new tomato that is as sweet as a peach..hmmm...
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| oohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...I read that over & over, and still kept reading "it tastes like a peach." Sorry all over the place, OP- LOL! |
RE: A new tomato that is as sweet as a peach..hmmm...
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- Posted by trudi_d 7, Long Island (My Page) on
Mon, Nov 23, 09 at 14:57
| Amazingly, there are peach-like tomatoes, Fuzzy Peach, Garden Peach, Wapsipsinicon Peach come to mind. They taste fine and are sweet enough once you can get past having to bite into their fuzzy skin which is not what you associate with a tomato. All of them are remarkable in that when you cook them they sweeten all the more, probably it's just a concentration of their natural sugar but I have noticed that fuzzy golden tomatoes have made some of the best sauce that's come out of my kitchen. I am kinda suspicious of marketing hype. Pineapple Tomato doesn't taste like a pineapple, Russian Strawberry doesn't taste like a strawberry, Orange Banana Paste doesn't taste like Orange or Bananas, and BrandyWine doesn't taste like Brandy or Wine and thank goodness it doesn't taste the BrandyWine River it's named for, lol. 'Sugary' is a term for sweet--but how sweet is determined by your own taste buds--and taste is subjective. Just the same, it's always nice to hear about new hybrids that are available. I'm a real maven and will save seeds just to grow out the OP seeds and see what's what--I generally find a huge, HUGE degree of similarity to the parent plant. And to me, when I see Sugar or Sweet, or anything similar in a tomato name or description I have the impression that the "tang" is missing from the flavor. Tomatoes have a very complex flavor and when one sensation is overstated then there's an imbalance. Hubs loves cherry tomatoes, he's partial to some of the darker ones, but he does immediately notice when one type is sweeter than another--and that's important to him, in my mouth I notice when one is tangier than another--and that's important to me. When you try a new variety, do so for a couple of years in a row because climate can effect taste. If a tomato is so-so one year then maybe next year it would be marvelous. Or not. I'm just saying to give a plant a few trials before swearing off the variety. |
RE: A new tomato that is as sweet as a peach..hmmm...
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| But the snozberries taste like snozberries! |
RE: A new tomato that is as sweet as a peach..hmmm...
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- Posted by trudi_d 7, Long Island (My Page) on
Mon, Nov 23, 09 at 15:47
| Yes, they do. Make sure to hiccup into you're forearm so you do't spread snozberry virus. |
RE: A new tomato that is as sweet as a peach..hmmm...
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| Great info as always Trudi, Thanks! |
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| I understand how wonderful natural sugars are, but isn't it going a bit backward to make tomatoes more sugary just for appeal? Tina did have a point--if you want sugars there are plenty of fruits. The article says the tomatoes are healthy, but I'd like to know if these tomatoes had lower healthy attributes than "normal" tomatoes. Maybe they're better than a peach, but are they as good as other tomatoes? I'm generally not a granola girl, but I watched the documentary King Corn and was struck by the comment that today's varieties of large-production corn from the big farms are high yield but have significantly smaller amounts of the healthful ingredients found in the older varieties. Some newer tomatoes have less Vit C, lycopene, and betacarotene. I've found similar statements elsewhere on the web, but I can't verify whether it's fact or myth. But, it is something that is motivating me to grow my own stuff and find older "heirloom" varieties that are healthy. We used to love some of the modern sweet corn like "Peaches n Cream" we got from local farmers down South, but now I wonder if they were all sweetness and little else! I'd like to grow the new tomato myself, but I wonder about the clarion call to make it push it on kids over other natural fruits. Just would like some more info. deanna |
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| Any time I hear "It's for the kids" my spine stiffens a little more. So many people have other motives and hide behind the kids. Pitiful. No offense meant to the original poster. |
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- Posted by trudi_d 7, Long Island (My Page) on
Wed, Nov 25, 09 at 20:53
| Hi Deanna, Tomatoes are loaded with nutrients so I don't think sweeter tomatoes are any less healthy--I doubt that the calorie count has increased much if any at all. Tomatoes do have a few calories but not a significant amount. According to the USDA ARS Publication, 'Nutritive Value of Foods, Home and Garden Bulletin No. 72 (HG-72) ' page 92 (PDF), a cup of raw tomato has only 38 calories. Link Without a nutrient analysis of the higher brix tomato I can't do a comparison, but I think the additional calories would be a negligible amount and the nutrients are the more important value. The link below is to a wonderful list a nutritional databases offered by the USDA Food and Nutrition Center--there are a wonderful set of topics there, lots to explore and learn, it really is one of the best websites the government has to offer consumers. And, so cool, it's got a tomato on it, lol! |
Here is a link that might be useful: USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory
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- Posted by trudi_d 7, Long Island (My Page) on
Wed, Nov 25, 09 at 20:56
| That link in the middle of the paragraph doesn't work. (my fault.) Page 92 has the tomato info. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Nutritive Value of Foods
RE: A new tomato that is as sweet as a peach..hmmm...
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| I do not support the practice promoting anything that tastes sweeter 'to appeal to kids'. Kids should be taught to appreciate different tastes because different foods taste different, and their taste buds should be allowed to become acclimatized to lower sugar content for their own health. Personally, as a science graduate, I do not like anyone tinkering with the genetics of anything I eat and I try to avoid anything that is genetically modified. As for tomatoes, I like tomatoes that have a little 'tang' as Trudi called it. To me that is a 'real tomato'. I have recently been encouraged to grow yellow tomatoes, which I did, but to me a yellow tomato is not a 'real tomato'. I have done some research lately (don't have links for the sites) which reported that generally, yellow tomatoes have about 40% of the lycopene of the various heirloom tomatoes. When I eat a tomato, lycopene is one of the main nutrients I am after. It's one of the 'super foods', with myriad health benefits. Another article suggested that one should be wary of canning the new 'sweet' tomatoes because the acid content is not high enough to ensure their longevity on the shelf. Another article warned to be wary of tomatoes that come in a package where they are all the 'same size and shape'. Apparently they are genetically modified to save on packaging (uniform containers), or machines which process them for soup/ketchup/paste and the like. Apparently, Heinz is one of the masters of this. So no offence to Ontheteam, but I will stick to my old heirlooms, although I do grow Sugary every year "for the kids"!! |
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- Posted by trudi_d 7, Long Island (My Page) on
Wed, Nov 25, 09 at 23:52
At WinterSown I will not accept or distribute GM varieties. GM seeds btw, are not available to citizens. You can't order GM seeds from Parks or Burpee, etc. They come from licensed distributors and are sold with contract.
In defense of yellow tomatoes there are some which are just awesome (I think) and have been around for a very long time. Livingston's Gold Ball (introduced in 1892) is one I've got on the list right now. I don't find yellow tomatoes to be any less acidic or more digestable as they're sometimes described--the flavor is a little different from reds, but so is the flavor of the black types like Cherokee Purple or Black Krim. I know I've said it a few times before but the best sauce that has come out of my kitchen has been made with yellow tomatoes. As to the size of packaged maters--many are bred for size but even uniformity isn't a guarantee, so they're handsorted and off-types culled off the washing line before they're packed. Northerner, for the kids you might want to try Black Cherry which is very sweet--it's just yumyum. |
Here is a link that might be useful: AW Livingston Tomato Varieties
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| My favorite tomato is a yellow, though it's called Snow White. It's very sweet, makes a good treat as I tend to my gardening. I guess it's a hybrid, though, because saved seeds produced a red cherry tomato which was less sweet. I like it enough, though, that I plan to buy fresh seeds this year. Karen |
Here is a link that might be useful: Snow White
RE: A new tomato that is as sweet as a peach..hmmm...
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| Well did not mean to hit a nerve. Sorry. like I said I'd try em. "for the kids" it's better then the purple/green/blue food phase for every food ( ketchup apple sauce come to mind) that companies went thru a few yrs ago. And..reading the article again..it's not GM..it's a hybrid but not GM...
( hybrids I can deal with GM no..) "The Sugardrop is the sweetest tomato ever created and is a natural hybrid of two different varieties of the fruit. " from the article...
So any way hybrids are interesting to me, its argue over who's eating the toms off the plant...so cest la vie |
RE: A new tomato that is as sweet as a peach..hmmm...
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- Posted by trudi_d 7, Long Island (My Page) on
Thu, Nov 26, 09 at 12:48
| Hit a nerve? No way...this is mild-mannered. On the Tomatoes forum some of those people go screaming, raving berserk. |
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