14 minutes agoThat's why tomatoes bought at the store don't taste like anything.
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)In search of real tomatoes, we will often be disappointed, especially if we look for them in supermarkets where we usually get tomatoes that we might call tasteless. A new research provides an answer to this question and shows that 93 percent of modern tomatoes do not have the genetic version [...]
A new research provides an answer to this question and shows that 93 percent of modern tomatoes do not have the genetic version that gives them a special taste.
That's why today's tomato from the supermarket has no genetic diversity, so they lack taste, writes The BigThink.
During cultivation, people focus more on what will increase production, such as the size of fruit and good preservation. Several genes involved in the quality of their fruit are lost during this process, ” said Zhang Fei of Cornell University.
Their findings were published in Nature Genetics magazine, which examined the genetic records of 725 tomatoes, cultivated and wild, which are important because of genetic diversity. These data were then compared to the genes of the dominant Heinz 1706 tomato, which is often used as an example of a tomato genome.
The comparison showed that Heinz 1706 lacked about 5,000 genes and that most tomatoes in supermarkets did not have a rare form of taste genius. Find TomLoxC was found in 90% of the wild species of tomatoes.
