Speaking of tomatoes, I think everyone will not be unfamiliar, it is a common dish on our table, such as tomato scrambled eggs, tomato egg soup and so on. But did you know that hundreds of years ago, tomatoes were mistaken for poisonous vegetables, and almost everyone hated it, so to speak, even dogs hated it. So why is tomato so popular now, and what has it been through? Its life can be said to be quite tragic, and it is not too much to describe it as a dog blood drama.
The early tomatoes were not as big as they are now, called gooseberry tomatoes, which grew in the Andes mountains and were about the same size as our current cherry tomatoes, but the taste was really sour. Later, after continuous evolution and artificial cultivation, it evolved into cherry tomatoes, which are not long, but the taste is not so sour, and the sweetness has become higher.
Gooseberry tomato
Cherry tomatoes
In 1518, Spanish colonists brought tomatoes back to Europe after the collapse of the Aztec Empire. At first, Europeans were very disgusted with tomatoes, because it was covered with strange fur and emitted an inexplicable smell, so there were rumors that eating tomatoes would be poisoned, so they also gave tomatoes at that time a nickname, called "golden apple", which was regarded as the fruit of the devil. The shift in European attitudes towards tomatoes began with famine after famine. In 16th-century Italy, crop failures for many years eventually led to famine, and it was at this time that people set their sights on tomatoes. When people are so hungry that they have nothing to eat, there is no way but to mouth the tomato. This mouth could not go down, and it could not be contained anymore. People are obsessed with the sweet taste of tomato sour, so the recipes that use tomatoes as a delicacy also appear accordingly. Nowadays, pasta and pizza are two traditional Italian delicacies that are inseparable from tomatoes.
With the development of science and technology now, the cultivation of tomatoes has never stopped, for example, China's only cultivation of varieties of more than 1,000 kinds, they not only have excellent taste, but also can perfectly adapt to the climate of various regions, planting difficulties greatly reduced.
From "poisonous fruit" to "delicious", it can be said that tomatoes have undergone dramatic treatment. Therefore, when we see tomatoes on the table in the future, please cherish this delicacy, because it can appear on our table, and it is not easy to go along the way
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