FACTS ABOUT TOMATOES
TO YOUR HEALTH: - BESIDES loads of Vitamin C,
TOMATOES contains
lycopene the substance that give them the red colour. Lycopene prevents heart diseases and cancer. The body absorbs lycopene more readily if the tomatoes are cooked. So
TOMATO paste and tomato sauce are better source.
KEEP OFF! : - WHEN insects chew its leaves, the tomato
plant release chemicals that give the insects indigestion!
FESTIVE FRUIT: - LA TOMATINA is an annual tomato throwing festival held in Bunol, Spain, during which people pelt each other with tomatoes. Nearly 100,00 kilogram of tomatoes are used in the street battles.
FOR THE RECORD: - DISNEY WORLD, Florida has the
WORLD largest single tomato plant. It weighs 524 kilograms and produces 32,000 tomatoes a year. Yong Huang, a manager at Disney World, brought the plant from China and built a special green house for it. The golf ball sized tomatoes are served at the resort’s restaurants.
CONQUEST OF AMERICA: -AMERICANS were slow to accept the tomatoes, until Colonel Robert Johnson of Salem, New Jersey ate an entire basket of tomatoes before 2000 people, on September 26, 1820.As he did not fall sick or die, it was the start of American’s love affair with the tomatoes! In 1897,
soup mogul Joseph Campbell cam out with condensed tomato soup. It made a fortune for the company and ensured that tomatoes a permanent place in American’s heart.
KETCHUP QUICK! : - ‘ASEREJE’ or ‘the
KETCHUP song’ by the Spanish girl band Las Ketchup was a huge hit in 2002.It was dedicated to their father – a guitarist known as EL Tomate (The Tomato)!
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