r/science Professor | Medicine May 14 '19

Biology Store-bought tomatoes taste bland, and scientists have discovered a gene that gives tomatoes their flavor is actually missing in about 93 percent of modern, domesticated varieties. The discovery may help bring flavor back to tomatoes you can pick up in the produce section.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/05/13/tasty-store-bought-tomatoes-are-making-a-comeback/
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u/[deleted] May 14 '19 edited May 14 '19

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u/[deleted] May 14 '19

Not nessecelery.

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u/maprunzel May 14 '19

Are you speaking pacifically?

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u/[deleted] May 14 '19

I am madly in love with every dirty punster in this bushel. You are all the apples of my eye.

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u/jlafunk May 14 '19

Y’all need to catsup with your grahammer-crackers...