Tomato, an annual or perennial herb of the genus Tubular Flower, Solanaceae, is native to the tropical regions of southern and central America.
Its journey began more than 500 years ago with the fleets of the then Spanish conquistadors, who returned to Europe with one of the spoils of war from South America, the tomato plant.
Indigenous people call tomatoes "round and rolling fruits" and they see tomatoes as a delicious and juicy "panacea" that Europeans took 200 years to appreciate, and Chinese 400 years later than Europeans.
When the tomato arrived in Spain, no one knew what they were used for, and these novel plants, which made their home in the backyard garden of the noble lord of the expedition, grew lush and lush.
For nearly 400 years in Europe, no one believed that tomatoes could be eaten, because red meant danger, and tomatoes were considered poisonous food, and no one dared to eat them, but treated it as an ornamental plant.
In the 16th century, the Duke of England traveled to South America and offered tomatoes as a gift of love to her lover Queen Elizabeth as an expression of love.
In the 17th century, a French painter risked his life to eat a tomato, feeling sour and sweet, so the news that "tomatoes can be eaten without poison" quickly spread around the world.
By the 18th century, Italian chefs had made tomatoes into dishes that were colorful and delicious, and guests were full of praise. The tomatoes are finally on the table.
In the 1880s, Queen Margot of Italy wanted pizza, so a Neapolitan pizzeria offered a pastry decorated with tomato, mozzarella cheese and basil leaves, which was the color of the Italian flag.
Tomato carnival began in the 1940s, every summer, the Spanish town of Buñol held a tomato war, people throw ripe tomatoes at each other, countless ripe tomatoes are thrown around and crushed into jam, is a way to let people vent their stress.
There are many kinds of tomatoes, there are green tomatoes "Black Sarah" from Moldavia Park, "Gaudita" and "Snow White" from Macedonia, people used to think that tomatoes are fruits that fall from heaven because they are so delicious, tomatoes are even called "fruits of paradise".
During the Ming Dynasty, tomatoes were introduced to China via the Maritime Silk Road, only as ornamental plants. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Chinese began to eat tomatoes. Wang Hao of the Qing Dynasty included "tomatoes" in the appendix of the fruit spectrum of the Guangqun Fang Genealogy: "A June persimmon with a stem resembling artemisia." It is four or five feet tall, the leaves are like wormwood, the flowers are like durians, and a branch is five or three or four solid. ....... Herb also, from Zephani, hence the name".
Today, China is the world's largest tomato exporter with an annual output of 30 million tons, and the harvested tomatoes are processed into tomato pulp and shipped around the world, most of which are shipped to Europe. This is how China occupies a place in the field of world processing.