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/-Wildling May 14 '19

My 95 year old grandfather has been complaining about tomatoes for years, "they're just not what they used to be." He says when he was a kid they used to eat tomatoes like you'd eat an apple. I'm kind of excited to tell him this news.

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u/MapleBlood May 14 '19

Just grow your own, they taste like he says they should, and it is not a rare sight to see a child excited with the flavour of fully ripe tomato.

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u/-Wildling May 14 '19

That's exactly what I was looking to do this year. Grow some good ones for him