Originally Posted by harveyc (Post 56199)

The problem with most tomatoes bought in the market is that they are picked green and then stored for many months. They were busy picking these green tomatoes earlier this month (the largest portion of these grown in the U.S. is in the county to the south of me).

Originally Posted by damaclese (Post 56198)

as a chef i am vary familiar with all kinds of produce and how it taste what its textures are like and how it cooks one thing that i feel is a negative are GM Tomato's there not as good as the natural one there hard tasteless and are difficult to get to brake down in a sous I've also read and i don't know if this is still true as this was at least 10 years a go that nutritionally they lack many enzymes that Natural tomatoes have and are also low in Potassium if that still holds true why bother sure they last along time and hardly rot even over a 4 week period but if they taste bad why grow them and lastly i don't want to eat any thing thats been sprayed with roundup or any other kind of herbicide/pesticides thees are Poisons and they do get in to your body test any American for them and they are present they cant be washed of they penetrate the foods them selfs and just why do you think that THE USA has the Highest infant Mortality Rate In the Western World even higher then Bangladesh India DOHHHHH Greed and a Lack of Moral fiber

PS and this mite be of interest to the Guys why are American males Sterile at rats higher then any other Country its really an Epidemic if you look at the stats thees have been increasing dramatical over the last 2 decades

Originally Posted by momoese (Post 56204)

I think it also has to do with the varieties they grow and how they are grown. I'd be willing to bet that a Cherokee Purple grown in real live soil and then picked green and stored until ripe would have twice the flavor of the box tomatoes available in the grocery markets. They just like growing box tomatoes for their shipability,(is that a word?) bug and disease resistance.

Originally Posted by harveyc (Post 56210)

Mitchel, I don't know that any tomato picked green will taste much better than another one that is also picked green. It's sort of like betting that your Porsche can handle better than my pickup, each with two wheels missing! ;)

Originally Posted by turtile (Post 56161)

Did you know that organic corn is sprayed with the Bt protein? It is used as an organic pesticide.