Tasteless tomatoes may be on the way out. Their flavor gene is being bred back in
by Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times
May 27, 2019
2 minutes
At last! Scientific confirmation of what anyone with a palate already knew: Supermarket tomatoes, by and large, are as tasty as raw potatoes, which is to say they basically have no flavor at all.
As humans have tried to develop a tough-skinned, slow-ripening commercial tomato that would survive the rigors of long-distance transport, it appears the flavor genes got left behind, says
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