very year, more than 177 million tonnes of tomatoes are produced around the world and they are regarded as being grown “worldwide”. There are more than 7500 varieties of this fruit, which originally was yellow in colour when it was grown first by the Aztecs of Central America. Introduced into Spain in the 16th century, tomatoes were not eaten for a couple of hundred more years because people thought they might be or apple of gold, and red tomatoes did not exist for some time.
