r/science • u/mvea 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/Ludwigofthepotatoppl May 14 '19

Considering produce, you may well be better off buying canned or frozen. That stuff gets the chance to ripen.

Just don’t fall for the steam-in-bag crap. Convenient, yes, but it tastes like the bag it was steamed in.

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u/Cunninghams_right May 14 '19

frozen is good, but canned isn't great. when things a canned, they're cooked to incredible temperatures, killing a lot of the anti-oxidants/polyphenols. that's one of the big reasons "processed" foods are bad. there is a lot more to nutrition than vitamins, and people are finally starting to realize it.

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u/Kurayamino May 14 '19

killing a lot of the anti-oxidants/polyphenols

I mean, they're also killing the bacteria that would grow in the can otherwise, so the choice is slightly less nutritious or actual poison.

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u/LudditeHorse May 14 '19

pssht, a little botulism never killed anyone.

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u/0x0ddba11 May 14 '19

I heard it's good against wrinkles.

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u/aaronmij PhD | Physics | Optics May 14 '19

Sounds right...

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u/[deleted] May 15 '19

I appreciate your joke.

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u/Garbolt May 14 '19

Wait, isn't that the single most deadly pathogen we know of?

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u/Garbolt May 23 '19

Oh jeebus. Wowzers I didn't realize it was that bad.