The tomato is the majority extensively
grown vegetable in the United States. approximately everyone who has a garden
has at least one tomato place. They can even be shaped in casement pack gardens
or in solitary pots. Commercially, it is of equally great importance. From
processing to fresh market, and from beefsteak to grape tomatoes, the variety
and worth of the fruit is virtually boundless. Tomatoes are members of the
family, which includes peppers, eggplant, Irish potatoes and tobacco. The
tomato originated in the area extending from Ecuador to Chile in the western
coastal unadorned of South America. The tomato was first domesticated in Mexico
where a variety of sizes and colors were selected. The fruit was introduced to
Europe in the mid-1500s. The first ones introduce there were almost certainly
yellow since they were given the name in Italy, which were used in Italy and
France. Tomatoes are members of the nightshade family and, because of this,
were considered for many years to be poisonous. Indeed, many crops in this
family contain highly toxic alkaloids. Ptomaine occurs in toxic quantities in
the tomato plant life but is converted enzymatic ally to a non-toxic form in
the fruit. Because of these beliefs, the crop was not used for food until the
18th century in England and France. Tomatoes were introduced to the
United States in 1710, but only became popular as a food item later in that
century. Even as late as 1900, many people held the belief that tomatoes were insecure
to eat.
