Tomato
Tomato

Tomato is herbaceous, it is usually sprawling the plant in Solanaceae or the nightshade family, these are close cousin potatoes, tobacco, chili pepper, poisonous and eggplant the poisonous belladonna. So it is perennial and grown outdoor in the temperature climate as annual.

 

It is native to the South America, while evidence show that progenitors of these were herbaceous green plant having small leaves of fruit with center of the diversity in highlands of Peru, early Solanums are diversified into dozen or the species of the tomato recognized today. Tomatoes were prepared along with peppers, salt and corn, and likely to be original salsa recipe.

 

Peoples believe about Spanish explorer named Cortez that may also have fist transfer to small yellow tomatoes to the Europe after captured Aztec city of the Tenochtitlan, word tomato comes from word in Nahuatl language, while specific name means that "wolf-peach" whose scientific name "wolf-fruit" as they are major food of the wild in South America. Other peoples and Aztecs in region used fruit in their cooking, large, mutation from smoother, lumpy tomato; smaller fruit was encouraged in the Mesoamerica. Tomato in America probably originated in highlands of west coast of the South America.

 


After Spanish colonization of Americas, Spanish distributed tomato throughout the colonies in Caribbean; it also took Philippines moved to the Southeast Asian and entire Asian continent. Spanish brought tomato to the Europe, it easily grew in the Mediterranean climates as well as its cultivation began in year 1540s, and was probably after it was cultivated and introduced. Certain areas of the Italy as Florence, fruit were also used solely as a tabletop decoration before the incorporated into local cuisine in late 17 th in early 18 th century. Tomatoes were eaten widely in Britain, by mid 1700s, Britannica was stated tomato was in soups, cultivation had reached over industrial scale in the glasshouses.
 
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