Cool things and facts about tomatoes

It is red,delicious and cholesterol free.We cant imagine our salad without it and its very taste.It is found in pizzas and we can't make ketchup without it.It is simple,we are talking about tomatoes.

1.La Tomatina

It is a festival in which people trough tomatoes at one another for fun.It is held in the last wednesday of August in the Spanish town of Bunol.

2.The tomato is a fruit

Oh boy oh boy.Believe it or not but the tomato is really a fruit.But do to culinary purposes,it is considered as a vegetable.The same mistake is made for the coffee beans,but in fact they are coffee seed's.

3.Tomatoes for your health

Tomatoes are a great source of fibers.This will help you regulate your blood sugar.They are also one of the best source of Vitamin A and Vitamin C.Just so you know,tomatoes are great cancer fighters.That's one more reason to consume them on a daily basis.

4.Apple of love and Apple of Paradise

When the tomato was first brought to Europe it had different names.The Germans loved to call it the apple of paradise.The French on the other hand the apple of love.

5.Believed to be poisonous

In Britain, tomatoes believed to be poisonous until the mid 1700.After that people started using the tomato as  food on daily basis.

6.The biggest tomato

The record for the biggest tomato in the world is 7 pounds and 12 ounces or 3.51 kg.And it was used by the producer to make 21 sandwiches for his family.

7.It comes in almost any color and variety

There are maybe around 10.000 varieties of tomato and almost any color except for blue color.

8.Swimmers use tomatoes a lot

Swimmers use tomatoes for the hair because it removes the chlorine.

9.The biggest tomato producer

China is the biggest tomato producer.On the second place is the USA.

10.It comes as a square to

Today people use methods to make the shape of the tomato square.This techniques has been used to produce square melons that are very expensive in Japan.